We did not affirm our son’s trans identity. He later detransitioned and then took his own life. The parents of the recent school shooting in Minnesota may have affirmed their son and he took his life after killing two children and wounding 18 others. Can it still be argued that affirming is the best route for children?

When the police came to my place of work, I feared the worst. I knew it was about my son. I had always worried the other shoe could drop and his detransition was too good to be true. I worried my son had done something awful. He did, but only to himself, and left his family devastated. He did not take anyone with him. My son was never violent but cross-sex hormones mess with kids’ brains. Social transition also messes with their brains.

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We did not affirm our son but everyone around him did behind our backs, and at 18 he was able to get hormones. At our son’s funeral his best friend blamed us for his death because we did not affirm. His friend wanted the girl name on our son’s tombstone even though our son had gone back to using his birth name. This friend made the tragic loss of our son even worse, if that is possible.

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It’s time we help kids by ending the affirmation of the trans delusion. How many more kids need to take their lives and, perhaps, innocent children with them? It’s time to stop believing there are trans people. No one is trans. It is a mental illness and a huge medical scandal pushed on the vulnerable.