A mother of two young boys realized she made a terrible mistake after allowing her 4-year-old son to socially transition into a girl identity and described the epiphany she had as “leaving a cult.”

The mother, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote two essays and recently appeared on a popular podcast to discuss her journey from a social justice organizer and “true believer” in transgender ideology to a skeptic who is deeply regretful for allowing her son to believe he was a little girl trapped in a boy’s body.

“I’m texting a friend, and I’m like ‘we’ve realized that our older son is not actually transgender and we’re going to be rolling back the social transition and I feel like I am leaving a cult,’ because that’s what it felt like to me,” she said on the podcast Triggernometry with her identity disguised by a blur filter.

[That’s because it’s an accurate description. Transgenderism isn’t science-based — it’s *feelings*-based, and *belief-system*-based. Like other cults, it lashes out when questioned and attacks the personal motives of those who dissent or are skeptical. The detransitioners are treated like heretics and apostates, even while the priests of the cult insist that everyone honor the choices of the indoctrinated. That’s as anti-actual-science as it possibly gets, and the eventual reckoning for this will be devastating … and it should be, especially in relation to the impact on children. — Ed]