On puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria
The pharmaceutical treatment of children who present with gender dysphoria is getting more widespread. Children cannot validly consent, but they – and transgender activists on social media, plus therapists and doctors who believe in “affirming” the chosen new gender – can persuade parents it is in the child’s best interests. One way this is done is by stating that the child is at risk of suicide if it isn’t done, and social media sites actually instruct children and teenagers to tell parents and therapists that they are suicidal even if they’re not, in order to obtain such treatment.
Puberty is often difficult, even for those who don’t suffer from gender dysphoria. For example, I had a very early puberty – shortly after my tenth birthday (that’s probably the most intimate information you’re ever going to get out of me). Fortunately, I was also nearly fully grown, so I looked about sixteen. That didn’t make me happy, because I was really just a child, and looking like a woman took some adjusting to, as you might imagine. But at no point did it ever occur to me to stop the process – which wouldn’t have been possible anyway. Nor did it ever occur to me that I might “really” be a man.
Fortunately, social media didn’t exist. If it had, I still don’t think I would have thought myself a man, but who knows? I grew up in a world that’s very different from today’s. I’m just glad it was less confusing back then, or I believe I would have had an even harder time. My point, though, is that today’s youths are subject to a lot more confusion and a lot more pressure (including sexual pressure from puberty on), and it doesn’t surprise me that many believe that changing sexes might solve their problems.
The are a great many untold dangers to puberty blockers. For example, there is apparently a rare side effect of something called pseudotumor cerebri, and the FDA has issued a warning about that.
But there are much more common problems:
The [British] NHS has changed their guidance on puberty blockers. From previously claiming that blockers “are considered to be fully reversible” the NHS webpage now states:
“Little is known about the long-term side effects of hormone or puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria.”
Although blocking the progression of puberty can in some cases relieve the immediate distressing symptoms suffered by children with gender dysphoria, the evidence is mixed. The long term effects are unknown. There have been no long term studies on the effectiveness of puberty blockers and it is unknown whether interrupting natural puberty alters the natural trajectory and perhaps resolution of gender dysphoria in children.
Gender identity is shaped during puberty and adolescence as young people’s bodies become more sexually differentiated and mature. Given how little we understand about gender identity and how it is formed and consolidated, we should be cautious about interfering with the normal process of sexual maturation.
What we do know however is that virtually all the children who start on puberty blockers eventually go onto cross-sex hormones suggesting that changing their minds is rare once natural puberty is interrupted.
The Tavistock’s own published study on their Early Intervention trial shows that of 44 children given puberty blockers, 43 (98%) progressed to cross-sex hormones…
Cross-sex hormones have serious lifelong effects which cannot be reversed if treatment is discontinued. If a child takes puberty blockers at Tanner stage 2 of puberty followed by cross-sex hormones at age 16 they will be sterilised as gametes have not developed…
Proponents of the use of puberty blockers say that not only do these drugs relieve the distressing symptoms of ‘the wrong puberty’ in childhood but also prevent the body from undergoing irreversible changes which then have to be modified surgically during adulthood. For example, permanent growth of breasts in females which may necessitate a double mastectomy in the future. Alternatively, permanent facial hair growth in males which may necessitate its removal in the future. However, what is rarely discussed is the effect on the reproductive and sexual development of the child.
Puberty blockers followed by opposite sex hormones cannot create ‘opposite sex puberty’, only secondary sex characteristics of the opposite sex. However, normal sexual or reproductive development will not occur. Girls will not begin menstruation and so will be infertile. Boys testes will not grow and develop and will impact on fertility. The change therefore is only cosmetic. A boy’s penis will remain immature and remain the size of a child’s into adulthood. This will cause problems sexually if the penis is retained, both functionally and in terms of sexual arousal. It is also problematic if gender reassignment surgery is later chosen since there is too little material to use from the penis and testicles.
Much more at the link.
The Mayo Clinic site has similar information, although it whitewashes it a bit:
If children with male genitalia begin using GnRH analogues early in puberty, they might not develop enough penile and scrotal skin for certain gender affirming genital surgical procedures, such as penile inversion vaginoplasty. Alternative techniques, however, are available.
The site doesn’t mention what they are, but they are described here. You may note at that site that the surgery involves a very lengthy recovery period (12 to 18 months) and it also requires lifelong periodic vaginal dilation.
To take a completely healthy child – and one who often would otherwise grow up to be a fully functioning gay or lesbian person – and set that person on this road through puberty blockers is child abuse, IMHO. At what age can so-called “bottom surgery” be done? It varies somewhat, but for example Boston Children’s Hospital sets the age at 17. And a person qualifies at 17 without parental consent, as far as I can tell (the age for “top” surgery, or mastectomy, is 15).
For a guy with a scalpel everything looks like a sexual characteristic.
These are evil people. Nothing, absolutely nothing should be done until the person is a full adult and can decide on their own, about age 30 or so when they really know that they have genuine gender dysphoria.
This smells of the same scummy people who gave us recovered memory syndrome, which was nothing of the kind, but young insecure women being led into falsely believing that they’d been molested by a parent. Ditto for the McMartin preschool scandal where the children were manipulated into accusing the teachers of weird practices and molestation.
This is child abuse. It should be criminal, just like the Muslim genital mutilation whose purpose is to make females unable to enjoy sex normally. People who enable this without parental consent, or who perform these surgeries or prescribe these drugs, should be criminally charged.
A small number of these children may decide, as adults, to have surgeries and take hormones. Let them so decide as adults.
Though yet to fully unfold, humanity is being provided an object lesson in what ‘freedom’ divorced from common sense combined with rejection of accountabilty produce.
Kate:
One reason children are treated is that it’s harder to look convincing as a member of the opposite sex once puberty has occurred. This is especially true for biological men trying to transition to women. I agree that it’s no excuse, but it is definitely one of the motivations for this.
Leuprolide (the most commonly prescribed puberty blocker, also called leuprorelin) started out as an anticancer drug before it began to be used to treat precocious puberty and then as a puberty blocker. It has been given to pedophiles as an investigational treatment to reduce their sexual urges.
Leuprolide has a long laundry list of side effects– see the link for details:
https://www.drugs.com/sfx/lupron-side-effects.html
Note that some of the side effects include altered mental status, seizures, and “thoughts or attempts at killing oneself.”
As Neo says, giving this drug to kids as a puberty blocker is child abuse, not least because that use is off-label and is not approved by the FDA. I know many of us have had issues with the FDA, but the agency gets some things right.
Sooner or later some grandpa is going to kill the people who do this to his grandchild.
Manifestly and utterly evil.
This is so evil. Messed up people trying to mess up children, so they can feel better about themselves. ” See! I’m not the only one ! ” So, soon there will be even more messed up people.
Then being supported in the endeavor, by the Left, as chaos is what they want, to bring down our current social norms.
Sooner or later some grandpa is going to kill the people who do this to his grandchild.
Chases Eagles:
One might think so.
However, I was shocked at how constrained the reactions were in the UK during the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal in which some 1400 children, mostly white girls, were sexually exploited and often raped by groups of Pakistani males.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal
The horror was that legal authorities did nothing — actually worse, they knew and covered it up. Some eventually resigned, but it took years.
I was surprised there were no cases of vigilante action. Or at least none I ever read about. Vigilantism isn’t the ideal response of course, but I was surprised nothing happened.
Take a twitchy kid. Happens. Raised right, or not. Result could be optimal, or not.
But put him in a family of trendy parents trying to outdo the weirdest on TikTok and you have a problem.
Huxley, (my iPad insists on capitalizing your name)
Hollywood glorifies vigilantes, particularly gun vigilantes and there are still Americans here.
Something has happened world wide and the Robber Barons along with their sheriffs and new age-weird clergy are gaining power, this is Old Testament and Feudal European stories with witches and wizards along with soothsayers telling the common people what to believe.
Ten years ago if I were told this would happen I would have said no way, no how and never, yet…. here we are.
Welll the perpetrators were asian so racist to say anything in line of duty they are native so its ok to hunt them down
Only stephen leather has taken up the story of rotherdam
I agree with Kate that it is child abuse, purely evil. One only needs to insist upon inspecting long term trends to quickly conclude that this infrequent pathology has been transformed into a faddish context with the advent of ‘social media influencers’ – and the complicity of administrators that facilitate exposures to toxic people pursuing agendas at the expense of innocence, and even long-term mental health.
We live in an age where morality has been thrust backward by the easy access of quickly-gratifying technology. Parents have always had to be vigilant to protect their children until maturity, but now that vigilance must be much better informed on where to mobilize defenses.
I’m still waiting for somebody to tell me, what is the physical basis for gender? Is it all in your head? That is imaginary.
It’s highly amusing and pathetic that academia, the medical community, businesses and entertainment willingly agree to whatever narrative that comes out of the Rainbow community.
The great evil is in the physicians and nurse-practitioners who willingly do these awful acts on deluded, delusional non-adults. And people who promote them as if the gender-confused were normally functional, like Biden’s appointment of a female-pretending “Rachel” Levine as HHS undersecretary. As revolting a specimen of humanity as is possible to achieve.
Modernism in all aspects is a product of Satan.
Overwhelming reaction to this post appears to be horror and outrage. You can count me among this crowd — I too am outraged that adults, presumably in a position of power and authority of very young children, are encouraging kids to take life-altering drugs and eventually undergo genital mutilation. Absolutely horrible.
And I agree with Chases Eagles: someone is going to kill or horribly disfigure one of the perpetrators of this horrible activity.
Just imagine if any of us was to say in one of our social gatherings “we got a kitten (or puppy) last week, but we had to accept a male even though we wanted a female. But that’s ok, as we’ve decided to start a gender reassignment program with it. You’ll be able to follow along on Tik Tok!”
You’d be picketed, likely have your house torched, numerous cruelty prevention societies would sue you, and our President would tell the country he beat up a kid who tried to castrate a puppy when he (Biden) was in high school. Beat him up with a chain. And TV and newspapers would go ga-ga over his protection of defenseless young animals.
It’s a mad world.
Of all the madness in the past few years, so called “gender affirming care” is the most upsetting to me. It is just so obviously wrong and the consequences to thousands of people will be devastating. People will sue but all the money in the world will not be able to put back what was taken away.
The problem is that our government supports this horror and there will be no accountability for them.
Went on LinkedIn and got served an ad from Johnson & Johnson touting their meds for those who are transitioning. Gag!
Surgery of this type for adults is one thing. But for teenagers it is quite a different issue. They cannot possibly consent, and the rules about therapists needing to recommend it first don’t protect them because therapists are no longer allowed to challenge the transgender wishes of the children.
It used to be that before such surgery took place there was a very long period – only for adults – of living as the trans sex. Years. And then it was only adults who had the surgery. Now it is fast-tracked, even for adults. But for teenagers it is just wrong to do this. The threat of suicide hangs over everyone as well, and that is part of what drives it – but data shows that there is a lot of suicide afterwards, too (see this), and that there is no advantage to mental health status from surgery.
Hollywood glorifies vigilantes, particularly gun vigilantes and there are still Americans here.
Chases Eagles:
I’m not trying to pick a fight with you. I agree, to a point, yet still wonder how things will shake out.
To my recollection, the last notable real-life American vigilante was Bernard Goetz in 1984.
Not that I recommend or condone such activity. I do understand how it might arise.
Just reading about this stuff makes me queasy. I question whether *anyone*, child or adult, has actually benefited from sex-change surgery. You can add or subtract junk, take all the drugs or hormones you want BUT YOU CAN’T CHANGE YOUR CHROMOSOMES.
There *are* some people with mixed-up chromosomes but that is a very tiny percentage, one in a thousand or less. So that means the overwhelming majority of people with “gender dysphoria” are very definitely members of one gender. One course of treatment is to use counseling to get these people to accept the gender they actually are. The other course is radical surgery and drug treatment that may have extremely negative side effects. Which makes sense to use as a first attempt, and which as only a very last-ditch effort if all else fails? The question answers itself. And of course doing this before adulthood is outrageous child abuse.
One last question. What would we think if someone wanted to change their race (skin color) by surgery, either white to black or black to white (or other races)? We’d think they were out of their minds but skin color is superficial compared to gender.
I take an estrogen blocker as a treatment for breast cancer, the follow-up to surgery and radiation.
I had to try three different ones before I found one that I could tolerate. The first one caused severe joint pain; the second one caused intense anxiety. My current med does have some side effects, but they are less severe. I take it only because it has been shown to reduce cancer recurrence.
My point is that giving these powerful drugs to healthy young people is medical malpractice of the worst kind.
The psychological side effects are particularly troubling because these young people are already suffering from anxiety and depression.
I still remember how great it was when I switched to a new med and had two weeks off in between–I felt like a different person, happier, more alert, and healthier. Why are so-called doctors doing this to children?
I don’t really consider Bernard Goetz a vigilante. The trash he shot were a criminal gang targeting himself.
This is a vigilante:
https://realfarmacy.com/father-shoots-rapist/
The number pf people with gender dysphoria is small. They are unfortunate people who deserve some understanding of their plight. That said, what is transpiring in our society is a form of mass psychosis. It’s hard to believe so many apparently intelligent, capable people (MDs, therapists, nurses. journalists, etc.) have bought into it. It’s just beyond my ability to figure it out except that it’s all part of the Marxist plan to take over. If they can make you believe this is a good thing, then they can sell you Marxism as well.
It’s a pattern. Covid vaccines will keep you from catching Covid, transgender treatments are a positive thing – the younger the better, AGW is a crisis that requires we destroy our energy sector in the next ten years. All monstrous lies, but millions believe them. Why? IMO, behind it all is the eventual “transition” to Marxism. I hope I’m wrong. Maybe it is a form of Tulip mania that will fade as reality intrudes.
I know and have known quite a few transgender people because of the circles I move in and the places where I’ve lived. Every one of them, to a transwoman and transman, had the sense from the earliest years, meaning at age 3 or 4, of being “trapped” in the “wrong” body. And of those who took the path of surgical transition — I suspect that most transgender people probably don’t, for a variety of reasons — 100 percent did so in adulthood.
To judge from what my transgender friends and acquaintances tell me, aggressive agitation by today’s supposedly transgender activists has left many longtime transgender people alienated and fearful of the inevitable backlash.
As for transgender people who don’t make a surgical transition, one of my close friends identifies as male but presents as a normal adult woman. This friend is married to a bisexual woman, and the two of them “pass” as a lesbian couple. Almost no one knows that this friend is transgender; as my friend says, “I don’t think it’s the most interesting thing about me.”
Another aspect of being in my friend’s position involves the current pressure to state one’s “pronouns,” especially at work. A person who is transgender, but who chooses not to say so and not to have a synthetic body, is bound to be made uncomfortable by the same useful idiots who think they are being supportive in stating their own pronouns and hectoring others to state theirs.
I tend to agree with JJ: “The number pf people with gender dysphoria is small. . . . what is transpiring in our society is a form of mass psychosis.”
“…mass psychosis…”
Promoted and encouraged by “Biden” and “his” evil minions.
“Transformation” is such a potentially disingenuous, misleading, treacherously malleable word…deployed by disingenuous and treacherous people…
…and here we are smack in the middle of this huge, nihilistic vortex of lies, breakdown and passion for perversity and destruction…
Related:
“Biden” is striving to make the USA the greatest narco state/banana republic the world has ever seen…(just another reason “Biden” is cozying up to the Mullahs and Hezb’ullah…)
‘Florida AG calls on Biden, Congress to declare fentanyl a WMD’—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/florida-ag-calls-biden-congress-declare-fentanyl-wmd
‘ “GOP attorneys general sue Biden admin over plan to tie food assistance to school transgender policy;
“We all know the Biden administration is dead-set on imposing an extreme left-wing agenda on Americans nationwide,” Rokita said’—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/22-republican-ags-sue-biden-admin-over-plan-tie-food-assistance-school
‘6 terms Biden has redefined to further agenda, stigmatize opponents;
‘From “recession” to “disinformation,” the president and his team have weaponized language for political purposes.’—
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/orwellian-administration-6-terms-biden-has-redefined-further-agenda-attack
“Trump: House Jan. 6 committee probe another ‘Russia hoax,’ meant to thwart political comeback”—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/trump-democrats-are-using-jan-6-committee-russia-hoax-damage-me-it-wont
Know a little more than did before reading but hasn’t changed my opinion
This is truly evil being forced on children.
Once again with feeling. When the leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult, Marshall Herff Applewhite, then age 65, wished to be surgically castrated in 1995, he was unable to find an American surgeon who would do the operation on him or any of his followers. The surgery was done in Mexico. Paul McHugh, then chief of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, managed to persuade the administration there to shut down John Money’s sex change clinic by showing them the results of before-after studies of their patients. The medical profession used to be better than it is. Any physician, surgeon, psychiatrist, or pharmacist who would willingly participate in this is someone I do not want to know. Any hospital administrator or guild gatekeeper who would enforce participation is someone who should be stripped of all the occupational licenses they have and imprisoned.
Note also: a counselor, clinical psychologist, or psychiatrist who provides ‘reparative therapy’ for homosexuals is breaking the law in many states.
Used to be, if you even heard of a weird possibility, it was maybe once. And in a carnival or something. So its application to yourself was not inevitable.
Today, you can get it in all its glorious detail and possibilities, plus positive stories from or abut people who are celebrities for some reason. And it’s 24/7.
And even if it doesn’t apply, but you’re bored. Or, in these cases, if your parents are bored and think voting against Trump isn’t sufficient to make them hip and edgy….
And there are approaching a third of a billion people in this country and every one who wants to be connected to whatever can be.
See the Slenderman stabbings. There’s nothing too weird that it won’t attract somebody. And in addition, there is a multiple who think they get social wonderfulness credit for “supporting” and “affirming” the first group.
And one can bathe in whatever weirdness forever. And you are eventually captured by sheer volume of input.
I doubt many of the doctors pushing gender reassignment come from the Harvard Medical School end of the spectrum. If you’re not very good, you go in for a niche like abortion or cheapo plastic surgery or genital mutilation.
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say Ni at will to old ladies and contemplate gender reassignment and using puberty blockers and all such related idiocies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.
Puberty blockers for children.
And the parents of these kids are allowing this.
And there are medical professionals who have no qualms about providing this sort of treatment to children.
And the political ruling class , for the most part, says and does nothing.
Unbelievable.
Tell me once again about the notion of the “Good German.’
I doubt many of the doctors pushing gender reassignment come from the Harvard Medical School end of the spectrum.
Sorry, no. There are some frankly evil people in gatekeeper positions in the world of medicine. The characters trying to force the adoption of DIE in medical school admissions and training, the hospital adminstrators who had Paul Church stripped of his admitting privileges at four different institutions, or a cretin like Peter Szilagyi, whose CDC advisory committee recommended that the new COVID vaccines be distributed according to DIE imperatives. All of these butchers are allowed admitting privileges and none of them are being invidiously pursued by licensing authorities that anyone knows of. You fancy there aren’t any Ivy League types in a position to provide a facility to these butchers?
Tell me once again about the notion of the “Good German.’
Game, set, match.
“…And the political ruling class , for the most part, says and does nothing….”
The political ruling class is, in fact, pushing this.
Lamp posts have their uses.
Everything they promote is about not having children… duh…
Paul McHugh, then chief of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, managed to persuade the administration there to shut down John Money’s sex change clinic by showing them the results of before-after studies of their patients.
Well said, Art Deco. Two reasons for McHugh’s recommendation. One was that more than 25% of the postop patients were coming back asking to be changed back to the original gender. Two, the suicide rate was the same for those who had undergone the gender change treatment.
McHugh is now a pariah in the transgender community. He is still at Johns Hopkins, though at age 91.
Wikipedia has done their usual editing job on that article.
Arrived late to this party.
Of interest puberty blockers are an “off label use.” Recall that ivermectin “off label use” for Covid was not permitted and doctors would lose their license if they prescribed the medication.
https://youtu.be/xqzLFaMB44Y
On effectiveness of ivermectin as a prophylactic.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8354804/
Indeed, the Hippocratic Oath seems most unfortunately to have been altered by the powers that be to: “Only do as much harm as you possibly can”…
Nonetheless, in spite of the pressures to conform, there are still courageous doctors who refuse to submit to this perversion of their profession (or, if you will, art)….
Sex is genetic: male and female. Gender is sex-correlated attributes (e.g. sexual orientation): masculine and feminine, respectively. Homosexuals are transgender but ostensibly “stable” compared to others in the transgender spectrum. So-called “transgenders” are either trans/neo, trans/pseudo, trans/quasi, etc. who are subject to surgical, medical, psychiatric, or social corruption in order to simulate, stimulate an alternate gender. Trans- refers to a state or process of divergence from normal.
Indeed, the Hippocratic Oath seems most unfortunately to have been altered by the powers that be to: “Only do as much harm as you possibly can”…
Under the established Pro-Choice (i.e. selective, opportunistic) ethical (i.e. relativistic) religion (i.e. behavioral protocol). Different God, gods, or mortal gods/experts to sanction their choices (e.g. human rites performed for social, redistributive, clinical, political, and fair weather causes).
effectiveness of ivermectin
Along with HCQ, two of the safest drugs used extensively (billions of doses) throughout the world over decades. Along with HCQ, produced significant results to mitigate Covid-19/20/21/22 progress in first and third-word nations including high-density population centers.
OTOH, if parents really WANT their kid’s chances of going blind to skyrocket—AND savor feeling virtuous about what terrific, concerned and thoughtful parents they are—then here’s their chance…!
“FDA warns of brain swelling and permanent vision loss in kids taking puberty blockers”—
https://libertyunyielding.com/2022/07/26/fda-warns-of-brain-swelling-and-permanent-vision-loss-in-kids-taking-puberty-blockers/
H/T Instapundit.
(To be sure, it IS the FDA, so who knows? Maybe those parents’ll get lucky!!)
When my buddy gets elected to the Nebraska Unicameral, I’m pushing him to pass a law to protect children from the medical establishment AND their parents.
They can wait.
Barry Meislin:
That is pseudotumor cerebri. I gave a link in the post.
n.n.:
Those are not the way the words are ordinarily used. I’m referring to your comment at 1:10 PM.
Greg Hlatky and Art Deco,
It’s a sample size of n=1, so I know it doesn’t hold much weight, but the one physician I happen to know of, who works counseling minor children who present with feelings of gender dysphoria and determines whether to place them on puberty blockers and prescribe surgery; happens to be Harvard educated.
Artfldgr @ 11:12am,
I have noticed that trend also.
You’re right. The technical use changed around the mid-twentieth century, backed by new generations of experts. The popular use changed some decades later, backed by new generations of social figures. The disparities progressed with appropriation of words including “gay”, “lesbian”, etc. to socially distance homosexuals from others in the transgender spectrum. The same process was followed to normalize elective abortion, diversity [dogma], Green technology, liberalism, etc., and to simultaneously degrade, adapt, or recharacterize other concepts, history, etc. Accept one and all “equally”.
Everything they promote is about not having children… duh…
Securing capital and control… single/central/monopolistic behaviors. What better way than to normalize social dysfunction, sex ambiguity and gender dysphoria, and the wicked solution to relieve “burdens”. Pride parades less the lions, lionesses, and their unPlanned cubs playing in gay jubilee.
Art Deco,
You are entirely correct.
As a triple Board-certified MD (permanent, not the every ten years extorted from MDs now by the American Board of Internal Medicine, and presumably other Boards, at considerable expense for useless tests) who graduated in 1967, I went thru 3 years of every-other-night in-hospital on call plus an extra three of training that had only nominal on-call, it is clear to me now as a patient how badly the ethics of medicine have declined.
As hospital systems get larger and larger, their bureaucracies enlarge apace, and no one in such position gives a fig for how well or badly a patient is served.
Hospitals now hire a majority of MDs finishing specialty training. The FDA decides which off-label uses for drugs are OK and which are not.
You think MDs are still independent?
And medical schools now favor admitting “people of color” and teach CRT.
Drones, not physicians, are being created.
The day when I, as medical director of the group I founded, insisted that we would treat all comers regardless of compensation are long dead. We taxpaying docs at that time provided more free care yearly than our local 250 bed non-profit Catholic hospital!
@neo said “I’m just glad it was less confusing back then, or I believe I would have had an even harder time.”
Puberty wasn’t much less confusing back then, there just wasn’t reinforcement for the confusion. We weren’t bombarded with things like “how you feel is what you are”
How you feel is just how you feel, not what or who you are.
You have to wonder how much the whole self-esteem drive in schools, aka participation trophies, have to do with what we are seeing.
Related:
“NHS [UK National Health Service] will SHUT its controversial Tavistock transgender clinic after damning report found it rushed teens onto lifechanging puberty blocking drugs”—
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11057813/Controversial-NHS-child-gender-clinic-shut-damning-report.html
}}} I doubt many of the doctors pushing gender reassignment come from the Harvard Medical School end of the spectrum.
Sorry, and I may be wrong, but this seems like exactly the kind of insane nutwittery that I would expect a Haaa’vaad grad to support.
I respect the technical (engineering, science) graduates of places like Harvard, but not the softer stuff — anything less than chemistry and engineering in terms of rigor should be assumed to be a font of liberal insanity.
}}} Everything they promote is about not having children… duh…
No, it’s not merely THAT, dude.
THIS one is about rendering CHILDREN incapable of reproducing before they have any reasonable notion of it.
This is beyond pernicious, as it takes away the capacity for parenthood before the children even gain any concept of adulthood at all.
The parents who allow this should be lined up against a wall and SHOT. As should everyone who advocates or performs these activities.
Not planning on acting on that notion, but I should not be on a jury trying anyone who has acted on it. I would turn them in if I knew they’d done it, but would not find myself necessarily able to convict if put in judgement.
}}} Sex is genetic: male and female. Gender is sex-correlated attributes (e.g. sexual orientation): masculine and feminine, respectively. Homosexuals are transgender but ostensibly “stable” compared to others in the transgender spectrum. So-called “transgenders” are either trans/neo, trans/pseudo, trans/quasi, etc. who are subject to surgical, medical, psychiatric, or social corruption in order to simulate, stimulate an alternate gender. Trans- refers to a state or process of divergence from normal.
Translation:
“They are all confused as fuck about their sexuality”.
Everything, “Duh”.
This is just the “making kids feel ‘better’, regardless of whether this harms or helps them” that is inherent in the whole of “Mommy Mommy Mommy!” PostModern Liberalism.
It is the result of the complete rejection of the Paternal influence on child development in favor of absolute elevation of the Maternal influence.
And to any rational person, is just as bad, just as wrongful — morally, ethically, rationally — as the opposition is/was supposed to be (I doubt if it was ever as Paternal as is usually argued, but it is probably not unreasonable to ack that it was Paternally dominant until the 1960s)
What’s needed is an acknowledgement of the simply fact that both have value to the raising of a child. The result of raising a child with only Maternal influences is deleterious almost always (I am one of a limited number of exceptions, but my single mother was always more rational and sensible, and did not resist discipline-when-called-for — and even there, looking back, I can see places where some paternal discipline and oversight would likely have served me better than her approach).
We need to back off the swing of the pendulum to the opposite end and stop the pendulum around the middle and just let it “sit” there, swinging no more, with society encouraging both maternal and paternal forces in child rearing.
My own suspicion is that the maternal should be more dominant through to about 6-8, balanced from 6/8 to 12/13, and then more paternally dominant as they are prepared to become adults.
Note that “more dominant” doesn’t mean absolute or even close. we’re talking maybe 60-40 or 70-30, somewhere in that range. Even young children benefit from order and discipline as well as nurturing and support. And that does not exclude paternally supporting, too.