During the pandemic, her daughter and her friends watched TikTok videos for hours at a time. In her group of five female friends, one already identified as transgender.
Bored and isolated at home, they started “nudging” each other to make up male names, use male pronouns, and take on a transgender identity.
Lindner hired a seasoned therapist, but after her daughter announced her transgender self-identification shortly after, the therapist started referring to her daughter as a boy.
Worse, Lindner said the therapist perpetuated her daughter’s confusion by telling her that testosterone would bring her ‘gender congruity’. She also instructed her to call her parents’ insurance to ask if she was eligible for testosterone… at the age of 14.
These ideas, Lindner said, led her daughter to fall into a mental breakdown, which exemplified itself as a severe depression.
“My teen was in her room all day long, lying on the floor, catatonic with the cell phone in her hands, watching TikTok videos,” she said.
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