How The Word “Grooming” Became Meaningless

Ephrom Josine
5 min readMar 12, 2022

This article is dedicated to One America News host Liz Wheeler, who on 3/8/2022 tweeted the following:

Do you support teaching Kindergarteners they can be transgender if they want? Do you support a 6th grader transitioning genders at school & the school hiding it from the parents? If you answered yes, you’re a groomer. Florida’s bill protects kids from you.

Personally, I would be fine with children learning they could be transgender in certain contexts — in the same way I would be fine with children learning that, once they’re old enough, they will be able to drink alcohol if they want. I’ll give Liz that Kindergarten is too young — although she doesn’t actually provide any examples of this happening — but the overall idea is nowhere near as insane as she makes it out to be.

As for a student “transitioning genders at school & the school hiding it from the parents,” I’ve already written about the idea of schools hiding new gender identities of a child from their parents — it should be asked why the child wants these identities hidden above all else — but I want to note something else: How exactly could a school get a student to engage in medical transition without the knowledge of their parents? I normally don’t pull this card, but just think about how hard it would be for a child to hide getting a hickey or a new…

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Ephrom Josine
Ephrom Josine

Written by Ephrom Josine

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