Neutering children is all the rage in Western democracies, or it was. A few weeks ago, the UK banned the public health service from allowing gender transition drugs (and therefore surgeries) on minors, following a four-year study that showed the practice had no mental health benefit or made matters worse.
This announcement came on the heels of an undercover report featuring internal communications from doctors who prescribed hormone blockers and who mutilate children for money, admitting the drugs are dangerous, leading to cancer or death. In other words, they are neither safe nor effective, an opinion shared by regulators in France, who “want to ban gender transition treatments for under-18s, after a report described sex reassignment in minors as potentially “one of the greatest ethical scandals in the history of medicine.”
Thus the title.
The report, commissioned by the opposition centre-Right Les Republicains (LR) party, documents various practices by health professionals, which it claims are indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology under the sway of experienced trans-activist associations.
The report, which cites a “tense scientific and medical debate”, accuses such associations of encouraging gender transition in minors via intense propaganda campaigns on social media.
Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio, an LR senator who led the working group behind the report, concluded that “fashion plays a big role” in the rise of gender reassignment treatments.
The French Senate report warns that diagnosing children with “gender dysphoria” results in the premature medicalization of their anxiety
— “The diagnosis of ‘gender dysphoria,’ as shaped by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), seems to accelerate the… pic.twitter.com/1Y7O9djBvq
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) March 24, 2024
European nations are taking a serious look at the benefit-to-harm ratio as well as the bullying from gender warriors.
The French report explicitly points to the militant ideology promoting gender reassignment surgeries.
The report, which is detailed and well-argued, points to a number of abuses by health professionals, indoctrinated by a “trans-affirmative” ideology and subject to the influence of experienced trans activist associations. The report’s authors accuse these associations of unreasonably encouraging gender transition in minors via an intense propaganda campaign on social media.
The scandal has been brewing for several months, thanks to the mobilisation of psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, and parents, who have denounced the ravages of this militant ideology among fragile and suffering young people, to whom gender transition is proposed as a miracle solution to the psychological problems they may be experiencing.
Someone call Dartmouth Medical. The French are revolting against the preferred ideology.
Do not expect the American gender mills to go quietly into that goodnight. There is money, power, and influence in the gender-transition laundromat, much like abortion (which is also knee-deep in this scam). Almost no one thinks on earth it is reasonable to end a pregnancy after 24 weeks, even in extenuating circumstances, except the American left. Most of Europe and the world prohibit the sort of thing Democrats demand – conception to live-birth abortion.
Gender transition strikes me as a little different, and that door has been open long enough for them to realize the benefits of their agenda: indoctrination, sterilization, depopulation, and the medical industrial complex to campaign coffers laundromat. Europe’s position on abortion is in line with a supermajority of Republicans and independents, so it’s wrong, so their opinions about hormone therapy and surgery on minors won’t (likely) move the needle either.
You and I will need to do that with help from the UK, France, and a growing number of countries across Europe.
