Podcast
The Matt Walsh Show
The episode mentioned the book as the author's own guide, quoting a paragraph that urged parents to create a genderaffirming environment from infancy and criticized the advice as harmful.
That book is called rainbow parenting your guide to raising queer kids and their allies. So here's a paragraph from the first chapter of that book... I encourage you to think of infancy as a practice...
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The episode mentioned the book as the author's own guide, quoting a paragraph that urged parents to create a genderaffirming environment from infancy and criticized the advice as harmful.
That book is called rainbow parenting your guide to raising queer kids and their allies. So here's a paragraph from the first chapter of that book... I encourage you to think of infancy as a practice round. You can create a queer and genderaffirming environment in their nursery babble to them about consent while you're changing their diaper.
Already, but even if you leave that aside, that's the worst parenting advice I've ever heard in my life. Yeah, you know infancy It's a practice round. It's just this is the rough draft. Don't worry about it.
She wrote it in her book and it was published. It goes from there: you can introduce toddlers to big abstract concepts like queerness and difference and develop healthy skills like body Kindness and consent.