During a visit to lobby legislators on transgender issues, Senator Carden Summers ® knelt down and told a child he would protect her. When he learned she was trans, he backed away.
On Feb. 6, a group of families met to lobby senators on issues affecting the local transgender community in Georgia. One mother, Lena Kotler, decided to take her two children with her to give the topic a human face. While waiting to meet with Democratic Sen. Kim Jackson, who they had heard was a big supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, another senator passed by — Republican Sen. Carden Summers, the primary sponsor of the state’s bathroom ban bill. Little did he know that one of the children he would be interacting with, Aleix, 8 years old, was a transgender child.
According to Kotler and other families who were present, the senator stopped to say hello. That’s when Kotler spoke to Senator Summers about how she was there with her kids to “talk to legislators about keeping her kids safe.” Although she did not mention that one of her children was trans, they were present with LGBTQ+ signage - something the Senator apparently missed when he knelt down in front of Aleix and said, according to Kotler, “Well you know, we’re working on that and I’m going to protect kids like you.”
Kotler then replied, “Yeah - Alex is trans, and she wants to be safe at school, she wants to go to the bathroom and be safe.”
That is when, according to multiple witnesses, Sen. Summers stood up and fumbled his words, repeating, “I mean, yeah, I’m going to make sure she’s safe by going to the right bathroom,” continuing to use the correct pronouns for Aleix. When asked if he would make her go to a boy’s bathroom, he then allegedly backed away, saying, “You’re attacking me,” turned around, and walked off quickly.
How are children mature enough to realize they are trans?
Seems like children are too impressionable to be able to make decisions like that.
That’s why children have parents and medical professionals to ultimately investigate and make important decisions for them
Yeah, because neither group has ever been manipulated into making the wrong decisions for other people.
You’re right, we should instead trust the well-known-as-100%-infallible politicians to unilaterally make those decisions for us instead
“I mean, yeah, I’m going to make sure she’s safe by going to the right bathroom,” continuing to use the correct pronouns for Aleix.
Gotta love that he doesn’t even realize he’s saying Aleix is a girl and girls should be using the girls’ bathroom.
Edit: I really want to know if the people downvoting me are anti-trans bigots or don’t understand that an anti-trans bigot accidentally took her side even after realizing she’s trans?
Worth noting he’s a senator in the state legislature, not one of Georgia’s federal senators who are both broadly pro LGBT+
8 year olds have an IQ around 20. There’s zero chance an 8 year old comprehends being trans. The mother is a narcissist.
Saying that 8 year old has an IQ of 20 displays a misunderstanding of IQ and intelligence, but otherwise it’s indeed very probable that the girl(?) is very confused.
I thought this article describes the still ongoing problem pretty well: https://www.npr.org/2008/05/07/90247842/two-families-grapple-with-sons-gender-preferences
Zucker has come to believe that taking the view that kids are born transgender ultimately produces more transgender people.
“By declaring the child as transgendered at, say, age 3 or age 4 or age 6, and then saying in a sense, ‘Go with the flow,’ … that will impact, I believe, on how the kid’s gender identity differentiates,” he says.
The article was from 2008. Recent data shows that he was right on the money.
Recent data shows a sharp rise (at least double the amount since 2017) in children identifying as trans. But I believe it’s still controversial as to why this happened.
You do not need a high IQ to experience gender dysphoria. There are huge piles of evidence showing that children that young can, in fact, have a gender identity. Actually, significantly younger than 8. You are woefully ignorant of the fundamentals of the topic being discussed.
Have you actually met trans people? Have you talked to them about their childhoods?
Jesus christ that headline is the most satirical sounding headline ive ever seen period. It spunds more satirical than actual TheOnion h eadlines
