Unlike gender, parenting styles do come on a spectrum

So there's a new, media propaganda piece...ahem! I mean tv show with, I'm sure, well devised storylines and character depth....though I'm not holding my breath. The aforementioned show is called butterfly and my cynicism comes from experience of all previous shows with a subject material of a social justice agenda piece, see dear white people (still digesting that blatent out racism is a thing). The motivation behind their production is usually entirely to put one political viewpoint across. Fortunately, everyday people see through this and the downvotes reflect it. I'm not a huge betting man but, I'd put a fair whack on it putting politics ahead of a solid show and the rest of it confirming my assumptions based on the adverts (that seem to be on every other ad...seriously it doesn't need any more plugging). 

The adverts depict parents who are unsettled by this child...let me reiterate...CHILD. That seems to have the wisdom of most 70 year olds. They're unsettled that their kid wants to change gender and become a girl. Something that constant media propaganda allowing, they will feel validated to do with a straight face. But when most kids tell theyre parents theyre an indian or a cowboy, whatever would their reaction be if their parents told them NO! NO you're not a cowboy! Kids are rebellious, kids go through phases, this rejection of a phase would result in either a reignited desire to be as much of a cowboy as possible...or would come out at a later stage, maybe an obsession with westerns, or becoming a builder in the UK (joking ;).

Here we move on to the spectrum, the spectrum where those parents in the new propaganda piece lay at one side and push their kid inadvertently towards what he wants to be. At the other, taking it too seriously, in years gone by I guess wouldve moved to a ranch in Texas. No thats too extreme surely! Let's do surgery to reverse the biologically irreversible. The best parenting style when a kid goes through a phase is to let them see it through. And avoid a mental illness is their future. 

I'd argue that on one side we have overly strict parenting, the other outright child abuse for wanting to keep up with or be immune to the p.c mob. But both stances can lead to a very disturbed kid and a life ruined. A phase is just that, a phase. 

For those that geniunely have had...I think minus abuse, or either of the parenting styles above, the numbers would be minimal...gender dysphoria then mental health issues would likely have surfaced long before they got that far and any good parent would take them to a psychiatrist. 

But speaking specifically to those the media is trying to manufacture, I'd always advocate for less tv and more family time, but for gods sake just let phases play out. And not stray away from the fact that gender is biological.