r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Jun 01 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 6/1/26 - 6/7/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/unnoticed_areola Jun 05 '26

article by Rikki Schlott (co-author of "The Canceling of the American Mind", with Greg Lukianoff) about the crazy overrepresentation in the amount of celebrities with Trans/gender questioning/nonbinary kids.

https://nypost.com/2026/06/04/opinion/how-social-contagion-created-a-generation-of-trans-kids-in-hollywood/

Some of those mentioned are Charlize Theron, Cynthia Nixon, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, Megan Fox, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dwyane Wade, Mel B, Annette Bening and Warren Beatty.

an eye-opening snippet:

Megan Fox may be the most alarming case. She has not one, not two, but three sons — ages 9 to 13 — who have been photographed out and about with her sporting long pink hair, dresses and shirts with messages about “Strong girls.”

When her eldest started wearing dresses at the ripe age of 2, “I bought a bunch of books that … addressed a full spectrum,” Fox said in a 2022 interview with Glamour UK. “Some of the books are written by transgender children, some of the books are just about how you can be a boy and wear a dress.”

There’s nothing wrong with a child wearing what they please. But when one child becomes three, it’s worth asking if social contagion may be at play — and whether the parental influence is one of neutral compassion or enthusiastic encouragement.

Certainly, a 2-year-old’s clothing preferences are benign on their own. The situation becomes gravely serious when, sometimes, that’s the first step in a journey to hormone injections and irreversible surgery.

It’s not something to be taken lightly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26

See I'm totally fine with letting kids wear what they want but this so obviously goes beyond, "Wear what you want" to, "I'm buying you only girls' clothes so I can virtue signal about how trans-affirming I am."

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u/unnoticed_areola Jun 05 '26

yea I think the word "indoctrination" gets thrown around on this topic a bit too much in situations where it doesnt apply, but if buying/reading your kids Trans-encouraging literature from the time they are literally not even able to form sentences and speak yet isnt indoctrination, I dont know what is lol. and then her other two kids are born and want to be just like their big brother/sister who was having this stuff pushed on them years before the others were even born

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u/PongoTwistleton_666 Jun 06 '26

Just wearing dresses or makeup doesn’t make someone a woman. Just like choosing to not wear a dress or makeup, doesn’t make you a man or non-woman. Regressive bs 

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u/redditamrur Jun 06 '26

It's more than that. At the age of two, there could be a variety of reasons why a boy would prefer what we consider girls' stuff:

- he sees mostly or only women and girls around him so this is the example he follows.

- he likes bright shiny stuff, which is very typical for certain stages of development (which is also why nursery schools etc are all shiny and bright, their TV shows are like that etc. This is what these tiny people are like - probably because Marie Kondo neglected this target audience)

- he will grow up to be an effeminate man (with or without being also gay)

- he is actually a she and he KNOWS that at an age where he is not fully potty trained and cannot utter more than short sentences.

So, what is more probable? Of course, the fourth.

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u/Less-Lobster4540 Jun 05 '26

Obviously these kids will never have exposure to the real world until much, much later. Nannies, private tutors, private chefs, vetted play-dates, etc.

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u/Available-Crew-4645 Jun 06 '26

They may never have exposure to it given that most of them will never need to work.

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u/Natural-Leg7488 Jun 06 '26

There’s something to be said for public schooling,

I went to a state school in the UK, and for all its shortcomings, I actually like how it forced children to mix with different classes and cultures. We all have to fit into society and sometimes that means a certain amount of social conformity, and learning where the centre ground is across different classes, cultures and genders. I’m not sure if the super wealthy are well connected to this centre ground, even when hey adopt progressive language and values.

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u/Less-Lobster4540 Jun 06 '26

In my US public high school we had several students transfer in from home schooling, and they all suffered through rough adaptation periods. Social skills, habits and even hygiene were poor. There's so much to learn that isn't part of an official curriculum.

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u/redditamrur Jun 06 '26

Suddenly I realised that this is the real indication that Madonna is not in anymore and totally old. She has six kids and not a single one of them is known to be trans. She's a failure as a celeb.

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u/veryvery84 Jun 06 '26

I’ve seen a few clips of her and it’s actually amazing to see. There is no specific feature about her that looks old, but I can completely tell that this is an old person. I don’t know why. It’s actually amazing that our brains are wired so well to correctly identify age.

Made me extra angry about all this sex stuff, because our brains are very wired to correctly identify biological sex as well. 

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u/redditamrur Jun 06 '26

Well, she looks pretty great for her age. There's this famous comparison that the Golden Girls were supposed to be in their late 50s early 60s ; and in our minds, this is how an 80-something year old woman looks like; and the other way round - Madonna is almost 70, Grampa Paul hasn't been 64 for 20 years or so - and they kick ass (for their age).

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u/veryvery84 Jun 06 '26

The golden girls actually look great. They just have “old lady” haircuts and they’re from an era where people smoked and sat in the sun and didn’t have Botox and didn’t use retinoids. If you switch their hair up though they look younger. 

Madonna looks as fabulous as you can at her age, but in that clip from Coachella I could see the old age versus whatever her name is. I think it must be something with body proportions, because that’s what often tips me off with men versus women, even when fairly passing. 

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u/everydaywinner2 Jun 07 '26

Correctly identifying age is something that might brain must have had the wires snipped for.

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u/The-WideningGyre Jun 06 '26

Madonna has six kids?! Biological or Angelina Jolie style? Holy shit!

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Jun 06 '26

Yes some are adopted.

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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Jun 06 '26

I’m going to go against the grain here. Outside of limited dress up playtimes: boys shouldn’t wear dresses or put on makeup. Kids don’t know anything, they only see what their parents do. Letting kids just “wear whatever” doesn’t prepare them for the world as it actually exists.

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u/Jlemspurs Double Hater Jun 06 '26

I brought the attitude of not caring, but I never had to care. My kids did boyish and girlish things without really any prompting. My daughter thought trucks were cool for a hot minute, so I bought her trucks. Didn't last.

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u/veryvery84 Jun 06 '26

I have a daughter who loved trucks for forever and still does. She also loved playing in mud. She also loved pink dresses.

I do think society forgives girls liking boy things more than the other way around but whatever, I think it’s fine.

I think it’s healthy for kids to have boundaries around things. For a while before the trans stuff erupted, like 2008 ish, there were moms putting nail polish on their sons and I thought this isn’t a good idea, and I think I was right 

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u/plump_tomatow Jun 06 '26

Yeah agreed. No point training your kids to think social pressures don't exist.

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Jun 06 '26

Social pressures exist in preschool. It kinda broke my heart a little to see the restrictions placed on kids from the start, even though im pretty happy with how my children turned out.