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One of the leading organizations on transgenderism, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) acknowledged that transgenderism is one big lie. They didn’t admit this publicly of course; their internal files were leaked and Michael Shellenberger made sure they were made public:
Instead of the rigorous, careful, evidence-based medicine that champions of ‘gender-affirming care’ claim to practice, the WPATH files show doctors who are making it up as they go along, smashing through guardrails even though they know that the children they are chemically and surgically altering cannot really give informed consent. And people are noticing.
The transgender community is protesting this information, since it doesn’t support their disturbed agenda. Many of the standard statements of support for transgenderism have been disproven and discounted.
For example, high rates of suicide attempts for these children are simply untrue. But frightened parents, trying to protect their children, buy in to the “science.” Children are not born into the wrong bodies; troubled teenagers going through puberty may be uncomfortable with their physical changes and feel something is “wrong.” And transgender activists are more than happy to validate these disturbed feelings. Hormone treatment and surgery are not harmless decisions; children may never be able to mature properly and depending on their sex, experience normal sexual development and bearing of children.
Fortunately, many states are taking action against these treatments, although the bills vary in their prohibitions and penalties. This list briefly describes these actions meant to protect our children. The assurances from medical authorities that gender affirming care is valid are insufficient evidence to our legislators:
Some have expressed concern about a lack of data on the possible long-term consequences of gender-affirming medical treatment for minors. A 2022 Reuters investigation, for example, found ‘no large-scale studies have tracked people who received gender-related medical care as children to determine how many remained satisfied with their treatment as they aged and how many eventually regretted transitioning.’ Others, according to the article, have raised alarms about children who are not appropriately evaluated before receiving gender-affirming medical care.
What is tragic and sick is that President Biden continues to support the transgender agenda. I’m sure this latest information will not deter him from lauding these devastating procedures. But the fight will continue as long as there are disturbed people who want to destroy the lives and future of our children:
This does not mean the fight is over. Indeed, we should expect gender ideologues to become more aggressive as their losses pile up. They thought time would be on their side, and that new research would vindicate them. But their time is running out, and the continued lack of evidence for ‘gender-affirming care’ is pushing them to increasingly brazen lies and distortions as they attempt to justify their collapsing position. And they are also becoming more authoritarian in the places and institutions they do control, as they attempt to impose transgender dogma on the rest of us.
We must continue to speak out against this deranged and dangerous movement.
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If scientific evidence can be effective at combating the hold that WPATH and transgender activists have on the method of caring for gender dysphoric or otherwise troubled people, then let’s publicize the data, or lack thereof. I continue to be amazed that anyone thought the data would support the hypothesis that whatever the positive outcomes of social and medical sex-changes are for adults, these would be even more helpful when applied to children and teens. The basis for the ideas of gender activists has never seemed to be in the realm of science, but rather more like the extension of tolerance for minority sexual identities to ever increasing kinds of identities. The purpose has always been more about getting younger people to believe in transgenderism and gender ideology in order to normalize it and affirm the lifestyles of trans people.
Fundamentally, the ideology relies on a subjective standard for anyone’s claims. Since scientific data relies on objective and observable information, it doesn’t make much sense for the trans ideologues to give it much weight. They create their preferred realities with words, so why would they care if science doesn’t accord with their wish fulfillment?
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You may be giving them too much credit, Lilly. I can't see the benefit from tolerating alternative sexual identities when it creates the opportunity to abuse our children. Or am I misunderstanding?
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I am trying to articulate what they think they’re doing. I think it’s much darker than that, for some people, as you suggest. Many people are just going along, being useful idiots. Example from real life to follow.
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"Transgenderism" is meant to divide and weaken us. The tell? Their heroes don't believe it. Men can get pregnant? They don't believe that in Beijing, Havana, Caracas, or South Africa, and they damn sure don't believe it in the Middle East!
"Transgenderism" is just another way of saying "The Grass is Always Greener."
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