I like to remind people that the alleged gender dysphoria mental health crisis is, like most of the chaos these days, a product of deliberate action by interested parties. If Schools, Librarians (and parents desperate for attention from progressive peers) left the kids alone and stopped obsessing over sex and gender in general, most or all of it would go away.
The entire project is the institutionalization of Munchausen by Proxy for profit that just happens to legally sterilize segments of the population that the proglodytes love (overcrowded planet memes and all that).
It is all so unnecessary and could be turned around or at least averted.
Minors have social and cultural restrictions for a reason. Their minds are more susceptible to patterning and influence. If you stop asking them to question their sex (and why are you talking to children about sex anyway, you weirdo), they will likely not consider it. And research shows the few who almost universally opt to do nothing about it.
And if your kid brings it up (saw it on TikTok, Tumblr, Discord), nod once or twice and “bury the idea” for nine years, just like the US researcher who refused to publish results showing that gender therapy treatments did not in any way improve mental health outcomes. They’ll be an adult by then, and you’ll have saved a child from a grotesque cultural fad that can’t end soon enough.
We know it doesn’t help: the Cass Review and the NIH, France, the Netherlands, the American College of Pediatricians, and even the Pope (who is woke). A tide of experts is questioning the entire enterprise. Puberty blockers are dangerous. Even WPATH admits they can lead to cancer, heart problems, and death.
And if the foundation of the gender cult is to reduce suicidal ideation, it fails on all fronts. It doesn’t do that. What it does is neuter kids to make therapists, doctors, and hospitals wealthy, and Stop The Harm has some data that tells us two things. First, who is doing what, to whom, and where?
In New Hampshire, for example, since 2019, there have been 126 sex change patients (under 17.5 yoa) but only 43 surgeries (bottom surgery is now illegal in the Granite State).
That’s 43 too many, but while New Hampshire had a gender treatment per capita ranking it 6th in the US, surgeries, which peaked during the “pandemic” dropped to six in 2023.
There are between 160K and 200K kids who fit the age profile each year. That works out to about 0.0047% of that population annually (for surgery) and 0.00097% for hormone blockers. Given the risks, a life tied to dangerous, unregulated drugs, loss of reproductive rights from surgery, and no evidence of improved mental health or any decline in suicides or ideation, what is the point?
It appears political at this juncture. The battle is, as it seems always to be these days, about which science to believe. We know these drugs can lead to serious illness, cancer, and death. The world’s leading advocate for it has admitted as much. The absence of any mental health benefit means their holy grail is a fake and that the cultural momentum behind it is standing on lies they can’t stop defending and we are talking about children who cannot consent to those treatments or the real risks (minors, being minors).
Do parents, knowing that these risky options won’t improve mental health, make that decision or spend that money? Probably not. This, in part, makes the admission by the US researcher who buried her results for almost a decade the more damning. Her reasons, entirely political, exemplify the priorities of a cult that is clearly not in it for the children.
I’ll close with this. Vermont and a few other states (New Hampshire Dems have tried it here) embedded “reproductive rights” into their state constitution.
Sec. 2. Article 22. [Personal reproductive liberty] That an individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.
The mission objective was to politically institutionalize abortion, but as I noted here, that’s not what it says. As written, any COVID mRNA vaccine mandate violates Sec 2—article 22. Bottom surgery on minors who cannot legally consent should violate it as well, though only if the state is involved in the act or perhaps its sanction.
Vermont is also being sued over a law that limits pregnancy care center’s ability to advertise and offer free services, which sounds unconstitutional to me as well.
New Hampshire’s “enshrine abortion in the constitution” advocates take note.
