“Sterilizing a child, mutilating a child, can never, ever be justified under the Hippocratic Oath” - Sebastian Gorka, The Daybreak Daily
Chloe Cole was 15 years ago when she allowed a surgeon, under the guidance of her “gender-affirming” school, to remove her healthy breasts and build a male’s chest. She was convinced “it would make me happy, that it would make me whole.” Now 18, she regrets the decision, saying she has wakened from “a nightmare,” calling the process of puberty blockers, testosterone treatments and concave chest surgery “brutal.”
For these views she was harassed on social media by transgender activists who are pushing gender ideology on children and their parents. You can read her story here.
The thing of it is, she is not alone. There are lots of stories of girls and boys who transitioned to a new gender, only to regret it. And of schools and hospitals, teachers and administrators, even parents guilted by queer ideology, pushing them toward it.
Some who were pressured to undergo the transgender process say they were on the autism scale, or had been victims of sexual abuse as children. Others knew young they were gay but chose to mask their identity with a new exterior. Their stories are here.
The transgender ideology is part of a postmodernist, Marxist belief — pervasive in universities — that gender is a floating category, to be determined by the individual. Critics decry this attack on logic, pointing out that encouraging youth people to transition is also a direct assault on the nuclear family, a way to confuse the young, untether them from their parents and siblings, their very identities.
No doubt there are some who intrinsically long to transition, historically about .01% of the population. But not in these numbers. As Abigail Shrier points out in her Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, “The Western world has seen a sudden surge of adolescents claiming to have gender dysphoria and self-identifying as transgender. For the first time in medical history, natal girls are not only present among those so identifying—they constitute the majority.”
The Manhattan Institute’s Leor Sapir recently interviewed more than a dozen parents whose children are enrolled in California’s radical Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, which shames white children for their white privilege. The result, for many, is to “rush to he sanctuary of an LGBTQ+ identity,” where they are “catapulted into hero status.” Teachers are more tolerant of late homework. Peers are more impressed. A new transgender identity means no more shame over being white and straight.
So ubiquitous is this nonsense that gender activists have upbraided anthropologists for identifying the sex of skeletons — how dare you say Julius Caesar was a male! — and insist that everyone select their own pronouns, no matter how ungrammatical. In California it is illegal for healthcare workers not to use patients’ preferred pronouns. E.B. White would be horrified. Sorry libs but “they” is plural, not singular.
Corporations have latched onto the issue with enthusiasm— Nike and other brand names learned from the Summer of Riots in 2020 that Social Justice funding is a cheap bribe to avoid pesky inquiries into corporate corruption. Now Major League Baseball has gotten into the act — 20 teams support groups that perform child sex change. And the ACLU, which has long opposed castration for sexual predators, I guess because they are deemed victims, is all in on castrating and sterilizing young children.
President Biden, standing at a backlit podium in front of US Marines and looking for all the world like Adolf Hitler at Nuremberg, Thursday night decried anyone holding views contrary to his own as fascists who threaten our very democracy. Sorry Joe. Encouraging children to mutilate their bodies so you can win the votes of transgender radicals and their celebrity influencers, vilifying anyone who believes that gender identity is binary, does not make you the guardian of democracy. It makes you a demagogue. Like a chorus of haters, a compliant media applauds, labeling anyone who objects to this assault on our children — or to the invasion of biological men in women’s sports — as transphobic, racist, semi-fascist. Just ask J.K. Rowling.
In Europe, signs are dawning of a pushback.
“Hands Off Our Children,” read one sign in Serbia in protest of a planned “Euro Pride” Parade. The parade was cancelled. In Britain, five employees of the National Health Service resigned the Transgender Clinic over fears children were misdiagnosed as transgender, then given irreversible hormone treatments. Britain has since closed down the clinic, citing the harm that such therapy did to children. Renowned German geneticist Chistiane Nusslein-Volhard — a Nobel Prize winner — has called gender ideology “unscientific” and “nonsense.”
Sweden, Finland, perhaps France and Australia are now having second thoughts about the gender craze and its harmful effects on children. In response, the Biden administration — trumpeter for radical socialists everywhere — is about to classify them as “human rights abusers,” for following the binary science.
Perhaps the height of gender idiocy is the now famous question asked by journalist Matt Walsh in a documentary, “What is a Woman?” Such heavyweight liberal stars as Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson refuse to answer the question for fear the truth — a woman is someone with a vagina, who can give birth — might offend transgender activists or prevent biological males competing against women in sports.
Despite the obvious and embarrassing affront to science involved in the gender ideology craze, the mania for gender dysfunction is rampant among Far Left Dems. In Portland, Oregon, schools have launched a war against the “gender binary” and adopted a radical new curriculum teaching students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.” It is an insidious ideology, and it won’t be easy to root it out of the schools. When Florida’s Gov Ron DeSantis passed a bill in Tallahassee to ban teaching sex to young children before third grade, he was savaged by the mainstream media, which mislabeled the legislation the “Don’t Say Gay Bill.” This was a deft attempt by media propagandists who call themselves journalists to conflate “gay” with “transgender.”
But many in the gay community are beginning to question whether “transgender” is friend or foe. Trending on twitter recently was “#LGBDropTheT,” an acknowledgement that sexualization of innocent children — the Drag Queen Shows, the gender-confused Disney characters, the hospitals offering gender-altering surgeries, the schools grooming children for transition — was never part of the gay rights movement. Gay couples fight hard to adopt children — and no doubt they are as vigilant as any parents about shielding their children from sexual indoctrination.
“The T hitched a ride a few years back, invited itself for dinner, and is trying to make out that it always lived here. It didn’t,” tweeted user Rick Westhorpe, who describes himself as “same-sex attracted” in his Twitter bio. “Pride marches, protests, and LGB rights happened WITHOUT the T. I was there. I also remember the T wasn’t.”
The Far Left elite, who fly on private jets while shaming the rest of us for driving gas-fueled cars, like to say that climate change is an existential threat that will destroy the planet within a decade. Maybe saving a generation from the horrors of transitioning to avoid white privilege or just the angst of being a teenager is even more important.
Excellent article Johanna. So ,you have to be 18 or 21 in most states to buy booze, to vote or to contract legally but you can attempt to permanently change your gender through drugs and even surgery to remove/alter sexual organs and breasts??? Questioning your gender is certainly not uncommon, but the vast majority of young people go on to live very productive and comfortable lives in the gender of their birth. If a child is convinced they must change genders get them help to see what is causing the gender issues rather than sending them to secret gender doctors that proscribe drugs and/or surgery that permanently disfigures these children. If that child reaches their majority at 18 and still desires to "change" their gender by surgery or drugs then that is their prerogative.