The Kelsey Coalition
Working to Change the System that Failed our Kids
“The Kelsey Coalition is a national group of parents whose transgender-identifying children have been harmed by physicians, therapists, and clinics throughout the US. We share our experiences to help change the educational, mental health, and medical practices that have betrayed us, and failed our children.
We have no formal affiliations. We are an apolitical group of parents motivated out of love and concern for children. We distribute factual information, not propaganda, to legislators, policymakers, therapists, schools, and physicians. We believe that “gender identity” should not be conflated with sexual orientation. They are entirely different issues.
We are united in a singular purpose: to prevent psychological and medical harms to young people. Please join us.
Our inspiration is the courageous FDA pharmacologist Dr. Frances Kelsey. In 1961, Dr. Kelsey refused to authorize thalidomide for market-use. She prevented thousands of serious birth defects and helped strengthen FDA oversight of the pharmaceutical industry. Dr. Kelsey’s bravery in the face of immense corporate and political pressure has inspired us to speak truth to power, regardless of the personal cost or strength of our opposition.”
I don’t know what I would have done without my on line support groups.
In 2016 I had a two hour phone conversation with my son. He told me he has gender dysphoria and wanted to start hormone therapy to transition into a woman….WHAT?
I told him he can’t be a woman, it’s biologically impossible. He called me a bigot and a transphobe. I didn’t take his words at face value because I knew he was hurting within. If my son will go to the extreme of mutilating his healthy body, that was certainly a call for help.
When the phone conversation ended I was overwhelmed with fear. I was helpless. My son is an “adult” so I had no control over what he was about to do.
I spent the first two weeks in a zombie like state. I don’t know how I was able to function. I barely slept, maybe one or two hours a night. I was scared to fall asleep. It’s bizarre, I don’t know how to explain it. I sensed a presence of evil had entered our lives and it was unsettling.
I wanted to learn all the terms and their meanings. What was Gender Dysphoria? What is transgender? What did gender identity mean? How do people transition? How does hormone therapy change the body and what are the side effects? Consumed over this topic I spent hours a day researching.
I found many videos on YouTube related to transitioning. No matter how happy these people looked my instincts told me this was wrong. The trans activist would say “you’re not losing a son, you’re gaining a daughter, celebrate them”. I was not giving into this moronic way of thinking.
I started searching for parents like me. Parents who question the hormones that are being prescribed to children and young adults. There had to be parents out there who are against sterilizing their children. Mutilating a healthy body didn’t sit well with me.
It took me three weeks to find them but I did!
www.4thwavenow.com
A community of parents, families, friends who are gender critical. Loved ones questioning the rapid process in which therapist affirm patients of being transgender at their FIRST consultation.
I spent hours on this blog, reading the stories of concerned parents. In addition there is tons of information and studies on this site.
I posted my first comment. I rambled on and on. I was so angry over losing my son to the trans cult. Within minutes I received supportive comments from others. What a sigh of relief. I didn’t feel alone any longer. I was now connected to many compassionate, and well informed people.
I read many stories of teens who never showed any signs of gender dysphoria as a child now coming out as transgender. It appeared to be some type of social contagion. I could not remain silent. This led me to create a Twitter account and recently started my own blog.
The blog allows me to easily share the information I have gathered.
My blog focuses on two topics.
- Removing Gender Identity and Gender Expression from the NJ Conversion Therapy Law for minors (to allow children to be properly diagnosed and treat underlying issues before any talk of social transition or puberty blockers)
- Bring awareness that college students can transition while away from home with the help of college campus doctors and therapist.
Every voice counts and we are stronger together. Thank you 4thWaveNow for bringing us together and giving us hope.
Below is a video of a grandmother I met on Twitter. She has not seen her grandson in over one year due to the insanity of the transgender movement. The trans movement wants everyone to believe it’s all about love and acceptance. No one talks about the broken families. The trans activist won’t tell you about the harmful medications, the body mutilation, or the sterilization of our children.
Please watch
Here are links to other support groups / blogs that I have found to be helpful.
Therapists at Rowan U will only support GD- affirming it is the prime goal, and they will not treat any other co-existing mental conditions. FYI
Yes, I know, its sad and true. Please keep me in mind and forward my information to any other parent who might be going through this.I’m looking for others that will join me. Thank you.