Transgenderism on Trial
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The Child Mutilators Say the Darndest Things
June 2024
The following assertions about child gender transitioning were made recently in an email discussion group. Let’s see how well they stand up to scrutiny:
Trans kids are real and deserve respect and care.
Yes, trans kids deserve respect and care, not abuse by groomers and doctors who only wish to put them in the school-to-clinic pipeline. You must agree that there is a social contagion going on considering the explosion of numbers in children whose ‘gender identity’ is not congruent with their biological sex.
It is illogical to believe that all these children are gender-confused.“By the time gender-non-contented children are adults, of the 21–22 percent experiencing gender distress, all but 2 percent grew out of it – Or, 98 percent of all young adults are not gender confused, regardless of their circumstance during childhood and adolescence.” See this study.
These treatments are not new. Puberty blockers have been used for a long time and the risks/results are well known.
Again, you must admit that we are seeing a social contagion occurring among vulnerable kids who are being groomed by nefarious influencers.This is a relatively new phenomenon, so, no, the risks/results of giving puberty blockers to children are NOT well-known in this young population.There is, however, a new study found that boys who take puberty blockers may suffer from fertility issues and a progressive degeneration or shrinkage of sex gland tissues known as atrophy. The American College of Pediatricians has reviewed more than 60 studies and contends that Lupron has “been associated with and may be the cause of many serious permanent side effects including osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment and, when combined with cross-sex hormones, sterility.” ACPeds has also challenged the notion that blocking puberty in children is reversible. BOTTOM LINE: There are NO longitudinal studies showing what transgender drugs do to children. There can’t be. Transgender drugs and surgery for children is a new phenomenon. Therefore, the risks are NOT ‘well known’.
Detransitioners do exist, but in very low percentages. The best studies show less than a 5% regret rate in general (this is for all people who sought some form of consistent transgender care.) It is even lower for people who have had some form of surgery.
Calling some studies the “best” is merely a conclusory declaration and means nothing. It’s tendentious propaganda. Other studies show much higher rates, e.g., 29 percent. Moreover, studies showing low regret rates are notoriously flawed in several respects: 1) such studies routinely lose 20%-60% of the original group to follow-up (drop-outs), making accurate determination of the true results impossible; 2) results are limited to patients who still attend their gender clinic, skewing the results towards low incidence of regret; 3) deficient proxy measures, such as combing name change and medical records for signs of detransitioning, which are used when patients can’t be contacted, leading to underreporting of regret; 4) certain categories of detransitioners were excluded in one study; and 5) ‘regret’ is not consistently defined across studies, and only includes in some instances those who returned to the same clinic to begin actual detransitioining. This makes it impossible to claim the true rate of regret is ‘low’. Regret is a range and does not necessarily lead to detransitioning. Moreover, detransitioners form a huge community; a single Reddit group has 47,000 members. Finally, given the life-altering and devastating adverse effects of transitioning, telling a child ‘you won’t regret it’ is a criminal approach when that can’t be said with any certainty in any individual case. These lives are not yours to destroy.
The medical protocols in place are good. Nobody believes that involving state legislators will meaningfully make getting effective care better. What it really means is that if you are a trans kid seeking any sort of care (phycological, medical, surgical) then you should move to a state that welcomes you.
Au contraire. At least 20 states have passed laws prohibiting physicians from providing gender transition procedures to minors. Moreover, “several European countries, including the U.K., Sweden, Finland, Norway and France, have pushed back on the use of puberty blockers and sex reassignment surgery for children and adolescents.” None of this would be happening if permanent, irreversible no-questions-asked gender transitioning for children were a good thing. The drawbacks are becoming more apparent every day. The trans movement, which is being fueled by people who are in it for the money, are fast-tracking children through an experimental protocol without concern for the outcome or the children’s well-being. Informed consent is not possible with children. Nor can doctors guarantee to parents, who CAN consent, that harmful drugs/surgery will quell gender dysphoria. Children with this problem must receive intense counseling to determine the root cause of their issues before resorting to irreversible harsh measures and states are endeavoring to make counseling the number one protocol with drugs or surgery the last.
States are proposing the elimination of all available care for trans children.
A total of 25 states now have bans or restrictions on transgender drugs and surgery for minors.This is good public policy given the social contagion producing gender confusion in unprecedented numbers; the big money interests pushing something far worse than tobacco on kids (Joe Camel, call your office); the aversion of this lobby to extensive counseling that could uncover non-gender-related problems and result in salutary alternative treatments in individual cases; and the irreversible life-altering effects of gender-transitioning on minors who are not legally competent to consent to a car loan, much less permanent body mutilation and a lifetime of doctor visits and complications.If the other 25 states had any sense, they would follow suit.The Hippocratic Oath is FIRST, DO NO HARM, not THROW CAUTION TO THE WIND.
I'm not convinced that there are more than a few cranks trying to actively convince kids who are not gung ho about it already to have reassignment surgery or radical hormone therapies before they are out of high school.
This is not the work of a ‘few cranks’. It’s an entire well-oiled, well-funded Transgender-Industrial Complex with the fingerprints of the political Left all over it involving:
- Stop Child Genital Mutilation
Stop the Chop Shops!
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The Child Mutilators Say the Darndest Things
June 2024
The following assertions about child gender transitioning were made recently in an email discussion group. Let’s see how well they stand up to scrutiny:
Trans kids are real and deserve respect and care.
Yes, trans kids deserve respect and care, not abuse by groomers and doctors who only wish to put them in the school-to-clinic pipeline. You must agree that there is a social contagion going on considering the explosion of numbers in children whose ‘gender identity’ is not congruent with their biological sex.
It is illogical to believe that all these children are gender-confused.“By the time gender-non-contented children are adults, of the 21–22 percent experiencing gender distress, all but 2 percent grew out of it – Or, 98 percent of all young adults are not gender confused, regardless of their circumstance during childhood and adolescence.” See this study.
These treatments are not new. Puberty blockers have been used for a long time and the risks/results are well known.
Again, you must admit that we are seeing a social contagion occurring among vulnerable kids who are being groomed by nefarious influencers.This is a relatively new phenomenon, so, no, the risks/results of giving puberty blockers to children are NOT well-known in this young population.There is, however, a new study found that boys who take puberty blockers may suffer from fertility issues and a progressive degeneration or shrinkage of sex gland tissues known as atrophy. The American College of Pediatricians has reviewed more than 60 studies and contends that Lupron has “been associated with and may be the cause of many serious permanent side effects including osteoporosis, mood disorders, seizures, cognitive impairment and, when combined with cross-sex hormones, sterility.” ACPeds has also challenged the notion that blocking puberty in children is reversible. BOTTOM LINE: There are NO longitudinal studies showing what transgender drugs do to children. There can’t be. Transgender drugs and surgery for children is a new phenomenon. Therefore, the risks are NOT ‘well known’.
Detransitioners do exist, but in very low percentages. The best studies show less than a 5% regret rate in general (this is for all people who sought some form of consistent transgender care.) It is even lower for people who have had some form of surgery.
Calling some studies the “best” is merely a conclusory declaration and means nothing. It’s tendentious propaganda. Other studies show much higher rates, e.g., 29 percent. Moreover, studies showing low regret rates are notoriously flawed in several respects: 1) such studies routinely lose 20%-60% of the original group to follow-up (drop-outs), making accurate determination of the true results impossible; 2) results are limited to patients who still attend their gender clinic, skewing the results towards low incidence of regret; 3) deficient proxy measures, such as combing name change and medical records for signs of detransitioning, which are used when patients can’t be contacted, leading to underreporting of regret; 4) certain categories of detransitioners were excluded in one study; and 5) ‘regret’ is not consistently defined across studies, and only includes in some instances those who returned to the same clinic to begin actual detransitioining. This makes it impossible to claim the true rate of regret is ‘low’. Regret is a range and does not necessarily lead to detransitioning. Moreover, detransitioners form a huge community; a single Reddit group has 47,000 members. Finally, given the life-altering and devastating adverse effects of transitioning, telling a child ‘you won’t regret it’ is a criminal approach when that can’t be said with any certainty in any individual case. These lives are not yours to destroy.
The medical protocols in place are good. Nobody believes that involving state legislators will meaningfully make getting effective care better. What it really means is that if you are a trans kid seeking any sort of care (phycological, medical, surgical) then you should move to a state that welcomes you.
Au contraire. At least 20 states have passed laws prohibiting physicians from providing gender transition procedures to minors. Moreover, “several European countries, including the U.K., Sweden, Finland, Norway and France, have pushed back on the use of puberty blockers and sex reassignment surgery for children and adolescents.” None of this would be happening if permanent, irreversible no-questions-asked gender transitioning for children were a good thing. The drawbacks are becoming more apparent every day. The trans movement, which is being fueled by people who are in it for the money, are fast-tracking children through an experimental protocol without concern for the outcome or the children’s well-being. Informed consent is not possible with children. Nor can doctors guarantee to parents, who CAN consent, that harmful drugs/surgery will quell gender dysphoria. Children with this problem must receive intense counseling to determine the root cause of their issues before resorting to irreversible harsh measures and states are endeavoring to make counseling the number one protocol with drugs or surgery the last.
States are proposing the elimination of all available care for trans children.
A total of 25 states now have bans or restrictions on transgender drugs and surgery for minors.This is good public policy given the social contagion producing gender confusion in unprecedented numbers; the big money interests pushing something far worse than tobacco on kids (Joe Camel, call your office); the aversion of this lobby to extensive counseling that could uncover non-gender-related problems and result in salutary alternative treatments in individual cases; and the irreversible life-altering effects of gender-transitioning on minors who are not legally competent to consent to a car loan, much less permanent body mutilation and a lifetime of doctor visits and complications.If the other 25 states had any sense, they would follow suit.The Hippocratic Oath is FIRST, DO NO HARM, not THROW CAUTION TO THE WIND.
I'm not convinced that there are more than a few cranks trying to actively convince kids who are not gung ho about it already to have reassignment surgery or radical hormone therapies before they are out of high school.
This is not the work of a ‘few cranks’. It’s an entire well-oiled, well-funded Transgender-Industrial Complex with the fingerprints of the political Left all over it involving:
- legions of doctors and hospitals (e.g., Kaiser Permanente) pushing transgender services on children
- mental health professionals
- pharmaceutical companies
- professional activists
- ideologically-motivated donors like the Pritzkers
- corporate foundations
- Planned Parenthood
- the Biden administration, and
- state governments