The reason for their concern should be obvious. Children’s brains aren’t fully developed, and they aren’t deemed old enough to smoke tobacco or drink alcohol. Furthermore, these minors can’t consent to sex. Without question, they shouldn’t be able to consent to drugs or surgeries that cause damage to their bodies and sexual function.
Democratic lawmakers, on the other hand, in lockstep with big pharma, the entertainment industry, and government agencies, insist that children—often in secret from dads and moms—be encouraged and legally allowed to alter their bodies with experimental drugs and surgeries.
It’s past due time to stop calling puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries that remove the breasts and genitalia of minor-aged children’s “care.” Affirming mental illness or the rejection of biological reality in any individual, let alone a minor, is the opposite of care. Consider that therapists and medical professionals don’t affirm and advise self-harm with other mental illness conditions. For example, people struggling with anorexia aren’t affirmed in their false thinking that they’re overweight. Mental and health care professionals don’t advise behaviors, drugs, or procedures—such as reducing calorie intake, prescribing diet pills, or conducting surgeries to remove body fat—that would aid in further self-harm.
Too often, those who should be helping instead resort to a manipulation game, telling parents that if their minor-aged child doesn’t “transition,” that child will likely commit suicide. This ignores the reality that the vast majority of those seeking “transition” had preexisting conditions of mental illness and depression and that there are no statistically significant studies that confirm an increased suicide rate among those who don’t “transition.”
Rather than helping put the brakes on a harmful social contagion, schools, libraries, and the entertainment industry throw gas on the fire by exposing children to radical gender ideology that defies the biological reality of male and female and seeks to breed confusion concerning a child’s basic identity.
Legal bans on these practices are needed to protect children. Health care providers, be warned. Medical malpractice lawsuits will grow rapidly in the coming years as more parents and individuals who have “de-transitioned” (many of whom have experienced irreversible physical damage) courageously take a stand. Lawsuits aimed at therapists, counselors, and school personnel who have encouraged children and teens toward social and medical “transitioning” at odds with or in secret from parents and legal guardians are also coming.
For the rest of us not involved with guiding children and adolescents toward this harmful attack on their basic identity, let’s take an active role by committing to stop referring to this grotesque mutilation and castration as “gender-affirming care.” We must speak the truth and call this intentionally damaging harm by its rightful name—“child abuse.”
