KANSAS CITY, Mo. When Renton Sinclair texted his mom to say that he was transgender, she summoned a curse on the testosterone he was taking.

I actually went after the medicine, and I cursed it in the name of Jesus, and I said, No, youre not going to work. I dont know if youre going to make her sick or whatever, but shes going to have to go off that medicine, Tania Joy Gibson recounted recently during an episode of her podcast, repeatedly misgendering her child.

Renton doesnt talk to Tania anymore. But Tania is always talking about Renton these days, on podcasts and livestreams and stages across the country, from California to South Dakota to Pennsylvania. She often tells the story of how God appeared to her in a dream before her first child was born, telling her what to name her child, a name with Biblical origins.

Renton is not that name. Tania refuses to call her son that name. In fact, she refuses to call her son her son. Its demonic, Tania said about the existence of transgender people. My daughter is in there, my daughter who was born and prophesied over and given the name from God is in there, but the Devil has taken and twisted her mind

In Tanias telling, she is a victim, a mother who lost her child to the woke cult of gender ideology. She once told a crowd of 4,000 people that the gender-affirming care Renton and other trans people receive is the work of the literal devil, a scheme of mass sterilization to steal the seed of humanity.

She then broke into a rendition of America The Beautiful, a sea of middle-aged white people rising to their feet and placing red MAGA hats over their hearts.

Renton knows his mom has always loved the spotlight. She was, after all, a Miss America contestant, having been crowned Miss Illinois in 1996. Renton is horrified that, in a way, Tania has a new, albeit crueler, pageant. Its a pageant similarly obsessed with gender. For Tania, it has higher stakes than a sash and crown: She believes its her divine destiny and duty to take part in the current conservative crusade to force trans people out of public life, a necessary step in paving the path for Christs return. As outlandish and self-aggrandizing as that may seem, Tania has allies in high places to help her on this holy mission.

Renton has watched as his mom has started to speak from the same stages as famous right-wing figures Eric Trump, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn and others calling for laws that would force him to be everything hes not.

He has watched his mom get on these stages and call him a prodigal daughter a reference to the biblical story of the Prodigal Son, a wayward child destined to one day repent and return to God, return home, return to her.

But Renton is neither a prodigal nor a daughter. Hed like you to know hes never going home to Tania because that home was hell the type of hell hes horrified that Republican legislators are trying to recreate for every trans kid in America.

He has forged a new home for himself. A new family, too. And if Tania Joy Gibson is going to keep giving speeches about him, then maybe its time for Renton Sinclair to speak up about her.

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