Leave Babysitters Club alone!

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[–]worried19 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I posted this on the Reddit debate sub earlier, too.

This poor child is Kai Shappley, whose conservative Christian parents beat him for being feminine as a preschooler before ultimately taking him to a gender clinic and having him transitioned.

[–]GrendelsScaryMom[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

That is horrifying. Do you have a source on that?

[–]sotired 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Didn't have to search hard, sigh. How do people think this is acceptable? https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a43702/transgender-child-kimberly-shappley/

[–]worried19 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's mentioned in most articles about him. His parents are awful people who abused that child.

https://splinternews.com/she-was-an-ultraconservative-texas-christian-then-kai-1793859323

Kimberly turned to a DIY form of conversion therapy. She dressed Kai in camouflage and held her down to cut her blond hair into a flattop. Since most of the family’s seven children are boys—Kimberly has one adult daughter—there were no “girl toys” at home, but Kimberly asked the Christian daycare Kai attended to hide any baby dolls from her as well. When Kai turned her T-shirts into skirts or insisted she was a girl, Kimberly spanked her. When Kai asked for a Minnie Mouse birthday cake, Kimberly bought her one with Mickey.

“No matter how much punishment this kid got, you couldn’t beat it out of her,” Kimberly said. “You couldn’t pray it out, I couldn’t cast it out.”

[–]seminolehighlander 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

WTF. I was already upset about the BSC take on trans issues, and now I find out THIS? How fucking homophobic and troubling.

[–]worried19 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I really wish I could protect all the little GNC boys and girls out there. Give them freedom and space to discover who they are in time, in a safe, loving environment. This poor little boy doesn't have any choice about what is happening to him.

He's also not the only one. If you want to be disturbed further, you can do research on Coy Mathis. No media pieces have looked critically at his family's background. He's not their first "special" child. The mother seems like she has Munchausen by proxy.

[–]GrendelsScaryMom[S] 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This show is categorized by Netflix as appropriate for young children, so kids can watch this on their "child-safe" partition without their parents being aware.

[–]teacherterf 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

OMFG, this is a crossover between the Babysitters Club and this book -

https://socialjusticebooks.org/10000-dresses/

...whose main character is also a young male child named Bailey who likes wearing dresses. Bailey's dad tells Bailey "boys don't wear dresses"; Bailey, resolving this cognitive dissonance in the obvious way, declares "I am a girl". The moral of the story is that we should always respect people's pronouns, and in fact request them on first contact. There's even a lesson plan for this, delivered to kindergardeners:

https://teachbcdb.bctf.ca/permalink/resource1255

In other words, kids who may or may not be able to read single-syllable words yet are taught about pronouns, and at no point is the message "boys don't wear dresses" ever challenged. And now, in case that lesson didn't take, preteens can encounter it again with the same main character from the Babysitters Club.

[–]NDG 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, FUCK no. Well, there go my weekend watching plans.

[–]ladyreason 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for this. I was able to block it before my kids got to that episode.

Nothing is safe anymore I guess.

[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Write to the original author and see what she thinks: https://www.facebook.com/AnnMMartinAuthor/

[–]NDG 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She’s a lesbian, so I’m especially interested what she thinks about “trans kid” stuff.

[–]GrendelsScaryMom[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not "out" on Facebook yet.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

She has a twitter. She has email.

[–]GrendelsScaryMom[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I sent her a message on Facebook, for all the good it will do. Oh well. Maybe someone at her publisher will read it.

[–]fuckingsealions 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

More indoctrination.

[–]morethanafeeling 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Other than this plotline I did enjoy this show a lot.

[–]seminolehighlander 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have been enjoying it too, glad to see someone else enjoying the rest of it. WHY did there have to be this heartbreaking plotline, and with a kid who is a pawn of their mom's homophobia too!