Orlando's Pride Parade is evidently a big event in that city every year. The parade is colorful, certainly, with flashy slogans like "Stronger Together" and "Every Family Protected, Every Family Respected." The event draws tens of thousands of LGBTQ++ activists from all over the country.
Another slogan prominent in the parade coverage is "Parenting with Pride," which sounds like a nice sentiment on the surface. A parent, after all, should be proud of their children, regardless of sexual preference.
But this year, there's something more about the whole thing than just sexual preference in adults or children.
Saturday's Orlando Pride Parade was led by Grand Marshal Dempsey Jara, a "transgender girl" (boy) whose parents claim he began transitioning at — get this — five years of age.
An 11-year-old transgender girl is 'living her best life' her mother insisted as the pair soaked up the applause at Orlando's Come Out With Pride Festival on Saturday.
Dempsey Jara became the youngest grand marshal in the event's history as she paraded in an open top car through the streets of the Florida city at one of the world's biggest Pride events.
Wearing pink heart-shaped sunglasses and a floral gown, she blew kisses to the crowd while clutching a puppy wrapped in blue bow, as her parents beamed in the back seat.
'She's just always gravitated toward girl things, girls' toys,' schoolteacher mom Jaime Jara, 45, told the Orlando Sentinel.
'She'd say, 'I'm a girl in my heart and my brain'. She's been on this journey since she was five and she's living her best life.'
"She" hasn't been on any journey; "her" parents have been taking "her" for a ride. And you can see where it's gotten them: fifteen minutes of fame in a world where, among the Left, having a "transgender" child is a status token, like having a purse chihuahua or a Prius. It's an odd affectation that mixes virtue signaling with child abuse.
Does anyone doubt that this is the case here? Read on:
The family from Long Island changed Dempsey's birth certificate in 2019 to reflect her gender change and they have set up an Instagram page to document her development.
'Dempsey has been gender non-conforming since the age of eighteen months old, basically since she was able to express herself. She always gravitated to dolls, dresses and sparkly objects,' Jaime said
'Knowing that these items were what she wanted, we bought them because we knew how happy they made her.'
They set up an Instagram page. To reflect "her" gender change. A change they claim started when "she" was eighteen months old.
An Instagram page.
Is there anything about this that doesn't shout, "Look at us! We have a transgender kid!"? Is there anything about this that doesn't show, very clearly, that this isn't about the child, but about the parents?
It's unclear from the story as to whether this "journey" has yet involved any drug treatment or surgery, but since the family is from New York, it's apparently not impossible. And this, folks, is the angle that makes this story troublesome. If an adult wants to claim they are transgender, or polygender, or furrygender, or a ham sandwich, I don't really give two hoots, so long as they leave me alone. But these people are arguably damaging their child by using him as a status symbol. We have seen in recent weeks how much damage this rush to transition can cause people later in life; my colleague Brandon Morse has been documenting, for example, the case of Chloe Cole, who was rushed into transgender treatments and lived to regret it.
Chloe Cole is arguably one of the most famous voices for those who were misled by society to become "transgender" but later became disillusioned and detransitioned to their natural sex. Cole gave an impassioned speech to Congress about the subject that moved many to tears, and since then she's become a hope for some and an enemy for others.
This is the message I want to send to all of the parents of children who have been victimized by this insidious gender ideology. pic.twitter.com/a2kCHN9S3y
— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) July 27, 2023
It makes one wonder if we won't see Dempsey Jara, in ten years, delivering similar testimony.
If this were an adult, a supposedly competent person who has reached the age of majority, I wouldn't care about their "journey" one way or another. As Thomas Jefferson said, "It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." Adults can do as they please, as long as they mind their own business. Now, as for physicians arguably violating their Hippocratic Oath by cutting up healthy bodies, that's another story, but that's a topic for another day.
This, however, is different. It's disturbing to see a child whose parents claim he began to transition at an age where he was still making messes in his diapers. That, of course, is just not true; it's not even possible. This decision was not made by the child; children at this age are not capable of life-changing decisions. They lack the necessary perspective to make decisions on this scale, which is precisely why we don't allow them to drive cars, buy booze or guns, or to vote. Dempsey Jara was almost certainly pushed into this belief by his parents, guided — groomed if you like — since toddlerhood into being his parent's fun little leftist virtue-signal.
It's hard to see that as anything but emotional abuse.
Some noted figures — at least those who have "screw-you money" — are starting to push back on this issue. Let's hope that trend continues.
