The Bigger Picture Conference: The Betrayal of Trust with Stephanie Davies-Arai 

Slides can be found in the description.

"It was about not wanting to be what society told me a woman was" ALL THE FEELS. Brilliant talk.

Rachel Rooney has the single best book for young kids out there. Everyone should purchase "my body is me".

That ‘Listening to young people’ has become a real Red Flag imo - it’s the latest weaponisation of ‘kindness’ and ‘affirmation' against boring old safeguarding. Of course all nice people listen and are kind and affirm! What this all really is, is abdication of adult responsibility. Many if not most young people actually need and want adults present in the room to guard against danger they vaguely know they cannot assess - but few will be able to say so.

Thank you for being brave enough to speak out and help so many families that need to be heard. ❤

It's so refreshing in this climate to hear such calm, rational and lucid thinking. I salute her

can there come a version that shows the slides? great presentation!

Great presentation. I hope at the next conference they focus on recording the slides instead of the speaker, I would have liked to see what she was referencing.

Thank you for this Stephanie, I'd heard these books were troubling, they are worse than I'd imagined.

I remember when I transitioned, there simply was no trans anything and then all of a sudden, there were trans people featured in the media all over the place, on the talk shows the stars all paraded their trans children or adopted them; trans people were on the front pages of magazines, in documentaries. I think it would be helpful to look at it from the perspective of the marketing gurus who, having identified a "hot" market somehow, inadvertently ended up inflating a good old fashioned Jerry Springer type "freak show" into a cultural phenomenon which became catastrophically destructive to an emerging generation. I can see the marketing executives in the major publishing houses, having identified the latest market trends, eagerly signing up any author with a transgender teddy bear so as to "corner the market". The trans people I met during transition, for the most part, just came together to support one another and the "don't do it" cautionary message featured strongly in our conversation. Similar stories can be found in all the youth "cultural" trends. How many Grunge music fans became addicted to drugs? How many died? What is the impact of rap music on the world outlook of predominantly African American youth? I suppose you could throw in alcohol and tobacco culture in the post war period... . Money and marketing to my mind is by far the more influential factor here when compared to any sort of ideology. Children simply don't start doubting their gender because they read a book about a girl teddy wearing a bow tie. The picture is indeed much bigger.

It such a shame you can’t show the slides,can’t you edit them in from the PowerPoint? I was there in person and looking at the images of the front covers of these books as Stephanie spoke really focussed the mind on how appealing they make the stories look

Brilliant. A womanly brilliance.

I wish they showed the presentation. Very, very ingesting.

It's funny she mentioned "Heroin Chic." I feel like some of the young women transitioning to men have that look. They get really really thin (I guess to look more male and shapeless), look gaunt and unhealthy. Likely anorexic in order to achieve this look. The actor Eliot Page, who I used to see as fresh faced and healthy, comes to mind.

God, they make puberty blockers sound like an aspirin.

We have to do better for asd teens! We must make self acceptance books for asd girls asap! I'm a writer i can help

I'm inclined to think the children's books have far less to do with actually indoctrinating children, but rather, indoctrinate parents. 🐿

This is properly scary stuff. One despairs

Well said! BTW, ASD is also a contrived concept…there is no empirical evidence that defines ASD as directly related to autistic disorder. As a psychologist for 40 plus years, I recognize that we have much to learn about brain issues/differences. But we also need to e careful how terms are used to define ‘who we are.’

Why do a lot of these adults seem to have an unhealthy interest in children and their sexuality?

Why on earth are you covering books most 4 year olds have iPads or phones ...the internet is leading this trend

The message about "their space not taking up your space" is actually a very theological claim which stems from the cultural inheritance they believe themselves self extracted from. For such as space to exist you would, logically, need something extra-metaphyiscal as a unifying principle because no such space can exist due to scarcity. For Christians the only space where the addition of one does not cause loss for another is one of mutual love. This love is being demanded, but never reciprocated, as a right because the enlightenment extracted this applied tradition from its time, place and people in the form of liberalism, which could then be enforced via state socialism. They expect love as a right, but do not understand the mutual obligations which go along with maintaining the space, which upon collapse will be biblical. This theological space must be of mutual love in order to expand its occupancy, or even maintain current capacity. If love is truly at the core of the pre-political, without need of enforcement, contract with sustains our souls on this earth then as societies who made ancestral covenants with God we need to seriously consider what love means and who is deserving of it. Does love mean allowing evil to go unpunished? Does love mean watching the innocent suffer? Has everything that we have done or have not done come with a cost as of yet unknowable to us?