Reddit post about parent forcing hormones on transgender child is fake [View all]

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/20/tweets/reddit-post-about-parent-forcing-hormones-transgen/

As states across the country continue to introduce a flurry of legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community, a Reddit post gives the impression that a parent is forcing their child to continue to transition from male to female.

"Anyone else having trouble convincing your teen kids to continue transitioning," the post said. "My 14-year-old daughter (AMAB) has started refusing her estradiol so I’ve been crushing the pills and putting it in her cereal." AMAB stands for assigned male at birth.

"This is f------ child abuse and I’ll die on this Hill," read one tweet that re-shared the screenshot.

"Good parenting," read another, sarcastically.

The post isn’t legitimate. The "r/transparenttranskid" subreddit it was shared on was created so people could roleplay as transgender parents and promote inflammatory comments and fabricated abusive practices in the transgender community. It has since been removed by Reddit.

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