How School Officials Secretly Transitioned My Daughter: January Littlejohn on the Gender Contagion Gripping Our Teens

American Thought Leaders

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🗓️ 8 January 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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I sit down with January Littlejohn, a parental rights advocate and mental health professional. In 2021, she filed a lawsuit against her daughter’s Florida school district after school officials met with her 13-year-old daughter—without Littlejohn’s consent—to discuss a six-page “gender support” plan.

“It wasn’t just changing names and pronouns. They asked her which restroom she preferred to use. They asked her which sex she preferred to room with on overnight field trips. And then they did something particularly egregious. They said, ‘How should we refer to you when we speak to your parents? Should we use your birth name and pronouns?’ to effectively deceive us that the meeting had ever taken place,” Littlejohn says.

Gender activism has overtaken schools, popular culture, psychological associations, and pediatric medicine, and many vulnerable teenagers—often with complex mental health issues—are being misdiagnosed and given hormones and surgeries that cause permanent, irreversible changes to their bodies, Littlejohn argues.

“They say that these puberty blockers are reversible. That is a lie,” Littlejohn says. “We are seeing the negative side effects…This is not a pause button. This is a fast train toward becoming a medical patient for life.”

In this episode, Littlejohn breaks down the red flags parents should be on the lookout for, how parents can protect their children, and what they can do if their child comes home one day and says they want to change their name and pronouns.

“How are these children going to feel when they reach the age of adulthood, their brains finally mature, and they realize what’s been done to their bodies? And they realize the people that were supposed to protect them and love them the most allowed this to happen?”

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0:00.0	they say that these puberty blockers are reversible. That is a lie.
0:04.4	This is not a pause button. This is a fast train toward become a medical patient for life.
0:11.3	Today I sit down with January Little John, a parental rights advocate and mental health professional.
0:16.8	In 2021, she filed a lawsuit against her daughter's Florida school district after school
0:21.4	officials met with her 13-year-old daughter without her consent to discuss a six-page so-called
0:26.9	gender support plan. It wasn't just changing names and pronouns. They asked her which restroom
0:33.7	she preferred to use, which sex she preferred to ruin with on overnight field trips.
0:39.5	And then they said, how should we refer to you when we speak to your parents? Should we use your
0:45.6	birth name and pronouns? To effectively deceive us that the meeting had ever taken place.
0:52.4	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janja Kelleck.
0:57.9	January Little John, it's such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
1:01.8	Thank you for having me. January, we're going to talk about
1:06.0	this incredible journey you've been on. Before we go there, you actually have a background
1:11.0	in mental health and I want to get you just to tell me about that. How is it that you came to
1:17.4	be in this position today? Sure, so I'm actually a licensed mental health counselor in the state
1:22.2	of Florida. I'm not currently practicing, but when I was practicing, I had started out as a
1:27.5	substance abuse counselor working with adolescents, and then I moved to a university position where I
1:34.4	created and ran a program for college students with ADHD. So I've always kind of worked with adolescent
1:41.8	populations, been very interested in brain-based behavior, how the brain impacts learning, all of
1:48.6	those types of things really interested me when I was practicing. Why don't you tell me
1:53.5	the story of what happened to your daughter and your interactions with her and it?
1:59.3	So, ironically, since I was specializing in ADHD, my daughter also was diagnosed with ADHD.
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