Parents are putting their children down terrible paths because they have been misled by transgender activists and a complicit establishment media. The consequences will be felt decades from now.
A Reuters special report headlined “As more transgender children seek medical care, families confront many unknowns” begins with an anecdote that should be alarming all on its own. The family in question is discussing transgender treatments for a 12-year-old son, who they claim identifies as a girl. The family put their son on puberty blockers before he started middle school.
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Most alarmingly, the family claims that they knew their son was transgender at the age of 4. This is where you should really start to ask questions about where this is coming from.
When doctors detailed the risks of transitioning the son whom they forced down the path of being a girl at the age of 4, they acknowledged that the effects of puberty blockers on brain development and fertility “weren’t well understood.” The doctors warned that puberty blockers could weaken their son’s bones. Then came the fearmongering: “If you don’t begin transitioning your son,” the doctors claimed, “he would remain at increased risk of suicide.”
“The risk of people in the transgender population attempting suicide is over 40%,” a doctor told the family. “One of the things shown to lower that is affirming care and an affirming environment.” (Reuters endorses this notion, calling it the “danger of inaction”).
Has this actually been shown? In a Swedish study that tracked transgender people over a 30-year span (1973-2003), researchers found that “mortality from suicide was strikingly high among sex-reassigned persons, also after adjustment for prior psychiatric morbidity. In line with this, sex-reassigned persons were at increased risk for suicide attempts.” A Dutch study tracking results over 45 years (1972-2017) found that “the suicide risk in transgender people is higher than in the general population and seems to occur during every stage of transitioning.” (Emphasis added).
In other words, doctors are pressuring families into chemically and physically transitioning their children based on a claim that is at least highly dubious and probably inaccurate.
Gender dysphoria should be treated seriously and compassionately. But children should not be subjected to gender transitions that around 80% of them will grow to regret. We do not trust children to drink, drive, smoke, purchase firearms, or rent a car, but somehow it has become mainstream medical practice to go ahead and pump children full of puberty blockers and hormones and begin physical treatments including double mastectomies because they claim to be the opposite gender.
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Families in most of these cases are victims, misled by doctors who have committed themselves to transgender dogma without considering their ethical obligations. But it cannot be stressed enough that your 4-year-old child is not transgender. It is reckless and irresponsible for families to push children down this path, starting at ages where the children barely even understand what sex or gender is.
Years from now, we will be mourning the damage that was done and reading about the lawsuits these children bring against the providers who behaved so irresponsibly.
