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People rally in support of the Netflix transgender walkout protesting a new Dave Chappelle comedy special that activists say is harmful to the transgender community in Los Angeles on Oct. 20, 2021. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images
Not long before the pandemic, Irish state television network RTE contacted me to ask whether I was prepared to speak about a different kind of epidemic—that of gender dysphoria and sex changes. I was reluctant to do so because the subject, though undoubtedly socially important and very topical, wasn’t one that particularly interested me.
Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”
