Outside of the Supreme Court, transgender activists made many incompatible arguments. The different claims they offer seem to undo one another, but one thing is for sure: the movement has little concern with “doing no harm.”

That transgendering procedures do effect demonstrable harm on unconsenting children is the opposing side’s basic argument. Side effects, irreversibility, and grave psychological damage all inform this opinion — not to mention the obvious and intended instance of harm in destroying a child’s natural physical processes.