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Slack.com slash DHQ. On Monday, a horrifying clip from a recently released HBO documentary

went viral. In the scene, Congregans at a Unitarian Universalist Church are invited by the

female pastor to quote, proclaim their identity publicly as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,

queer, queer or questioning, intersex, pansexual, asexual or any category I've left out.

A mother then pulls her young son four years old, it turns out, onto the stage to announce

that he's really a girl. But the poor child has no interest in being paraded around like

his mother's show pony, so he hands the microphone back, saying that he doesn't want to do it.

The mother takes it upon herself to come out on her son's behalf, informing the audience

that her son, Phoenix, would quote, like you to know that she's a girl and she prefers

she and her pronouns. Completing this apparently familiar ritual, the pastor hands the child

the pink flower as a congregation repeats its creepy affirmation in unison quote, may you

be well, safe and whole. We honor you exactly as you are. Of course, that's the exact opposite

of what they're really doing. This isn't even the worst scene in HBO's Transhood documentary,

which is now available on their streaming platform. The film follows four transgender

children over the course of five years. It's clearly meant to promote and normalize the

deranged sort of child abuse just described, but any rational person who subjects themselves

to the film, which I did, but I wouldn't recommend it, will come away with a number of important

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