The Craze:
Through peers, social media sites like YouTube, Tumblr, and Reddit, trans role models on TV, and public schools, a social contagion of rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) is spreading among anxious adolescent girls who showed no signs of gender dysphoria growing up.
- Between 2016 and 2017, gender surgeries for biological females quadrupled.
- In Great Britain, the number of children seeking gender-affirming medical care has risen 4,000%.
Quack therapists and physicians are telling the girls’ parents that unless they socially and medically transition their daughters, they might commit suicide.
The Truth:
Gender dysphoria isn’t the root of suicidality:
Children with gender dysphoria often have other serious mental health issues such as PTSD, anxiety, and depression. Mental health outcomes for adolescents with gender dysphoria are very similar to those with the same mental health issues who did not have gender dysphoria.
Gender affirming medical treatment doesn’t reduce suicidality:
Rates of self-harm and suicidality did not decrease even after puberty suppression for adolescent biological girls, according to a 2019 leaked report from the Tavistock and Portman Trust gender clinic in the UK.
A 2020 Yale study came to the same conclusion: There is “no advantage of surgery in relation to subsequent mood or anxiety disorder-related health care visits or prescriptions or hospitalizations following suicide attempts in that comparison.”
Gender dysphoria will usually desist on its own, unless medically affirmed
“Only very few trans-kids still want to transition by the time they are adults. Instead, they generally turn out to be regular gay or lesbian folks. The exact number varies by study, but roughly 60–90% of trans-kids turn out no longer to be trans by adulthood,” Dr. James Cantor, Sexology Today.
Nearly all adolescents who identify as trans and are put on puberty blockers go on to take cross-sex hormones.
Puberty blockers are dangerous and irreversible:
In a survey of 1,000 women taking the hormone blocker Lupron, patients reported a wide range of symptoms: 30 percent cited severe joint pain, 29 percent, severe body aches; 26 percent, cracking teeth; and 20 percent reported osteoporosis. More than half reported moderate to life-threatening depression. Fifteen percent of the women rated their suicidal thoughts as life-threatening to severe. In addition, they had high rates of severe migraines, dizziness, fatigue, and insomnia.
In boys, Lupron lowers the production of testosterone to the point where they are chemically castrated.
Related: Transgender Puberty-Blocking Drug has Killed Over 6300 Kids so Far
Resources:
It’s a lonely battle for the relatives of ROGD children. The American Psychological Association is a politicized, leftist organization and strongly advocates for affirmative care, and public schools as well as most physicians have taken their lead.
NH Governor Chris Sununu has signed a law making it illegal for licensed therapists to help dysphoric children live as their own biological sex, so parents are left on their own.
But there are resources:
- Partners for Ethical Care offers online help and resources for parents.
- Parents of ROGD Kids is a group of parents whose children have suddenly—seemingly out of the blue—decided they identify strongly with the opposite sex and are at various stages in transitioning. This site provides links to therapists and other support, has helpful responses to gender ideologue’s slogans, and includes parents’ stories.
- Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier tells the history of the trans craze and the pressures adolescent girls face that make them so vulnerable.
