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So we're back with Emma Thomas,

who runs an organization that advocates for children of

transitioners and safeguarding for those kids.

And you know, in the full episode, you shared this story with us

about your own experience when your father transitioned and kind of a lot of the

exposures you had to things that you felt were just not healthy for you and not appropriate. So something that we've seen a little bit more lately are

families where the entire family seems to be trans identified and sometimes it starts off with one person maybe the father

transitions and then the partner also comes to identify maybe as a non-binary or

something like that and then lo and behold, some of these families

have multiple kids who supposedly identify as trans.

And I've seen a couple of videos floating around the internet where you see the adult asking questions

to their young child, four years old, five years old, and it seems like they're leading questions like,

well, because you like soccer that makes you a girl, right?

Or whatever, you know, things along those lines.

So having gone through what you went through

before the internet, before there was just this exponential rise in people identifying

as trans.

What do you think when you see stuff like that?

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