{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist","title":"238. Why Do You Care So Much? Anita Bartholomew on Queer Theory and Kids","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5595,"description":"Anita Bartholomew, author of Sacrificial Lambs, joins me for her third appearance to take on a question every critic of gender ideology hears: \"Why do you care so much?\" We dig into why that question works as a conversation-stopper, and why Anita argues the issue reaches far beyond a small number of people.\nWe begin with queer theory and its roots, including Gayle Rubin's essay \"Thinking Sex,\" and Anita's explanation of how \"problematizing\" the normal can produce a movement that is never satisfied. From there we look at what this means for kids: boundary erosion in school locker rooms and gym classes, picture books and sex-ed materials aimed at young children, and why belonging matters so much to adolescents. I lay out the two competing worldviews at play, one that assumes \"transgender children\" exist and one that sees a belief that can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.\nWe also discuss women's prisons and self-ID policies, sex-positive education and campus culture, anti-conversion therapy laws, and whether this phenomenon is peaking or becoming endemic. I share my thinking on college and how parents can plan ahead before a child leaves home. If you've struggled to answer \"why do you care?\", this episode gives you language and context.\nStruggling to parent a child with gender identity issues? Take my free quiz to discover which archetypal themes you struggle with and how ROGD Repair can help. \nAnita Bartholomew is the author of Sacrificial Lambs: A Liberal Reporter Exposes How the Progressive Left Harms Children in the Name of Gender Ideology. She is a former longtime contributing editor and contributor to the U.S. and international editions of Reader’s Digest, where she covered health, science, social issues, and politics. Bartholomew also wrote Siege: An American Tragedy, an account of the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and co-authored the award-winning medical memoir Something to Prove: A Daughter’s Journey to Fulfill a Father’s Legacy. She...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7R2fJL6ksh0-aqhZGIKVghpF0n5-RelfaD139dcIBCQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI1NzQ0LzE2NDQy/NzA3NjktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}