President Trump signed an executive order protecting children from medical interventions that attempt to "transition" a child from one sex to the other shortly after taking office.
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| Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-children-from-chemical-and-surgical-mutilation/ |
Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions. This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.
Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding. Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.
Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.
Predictably, transgender activists have initiated protests at hospitals that perform these procedures and the order has been challenged in federal court.
Actress Cynthia Nixon, who use to star in the tv series "Sex and the City", was one the headline speakers at a protest in New York City.
It seems that almost everyone she knows is trans or gay.
Yes, what are the odds?
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| Link: https://x.com/scarlett4kids/status/1886657000903180518 |
'Most importantly, I am here today as the mother of a proud trans man,' Nixon said as the packed crowd in St. Vartan park roared.
'I am here today as the aunt of a proud trans man,' she continued. 'My best friend's kid is trans and my kid's best friend is trans.'
'My wife and I - our lives are filled with the most amazing, beautiful, brave trans people - young and old, but especially young.'
This is Nixon and her "proud trans man" taken at "his" college graduation six years ago.
I have followed the transgender issue for a number of years and written about it in these pages before.
For the entirety of human history until the last 15 years or so it was accepted by almost everyone that there were only two genders. It was generally accepted that those who believed that they were transgender suffered from a mental defect not a biological one.
However, over the last 15 years much has changed. Science has been ignored because of politics. A number of gender clinics have opened across the country catering solely to children with transgender issues. Are we to believe that this has all resulted from genetic errors? Are we to believe all of these transgender issues just suddenly materialized out of thin air over the last decade?
This issue is not confined to the United States. Consider this data from the National Health Service in the UK.
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| Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14319709/British-children-suffer-gender-distress-study-reveals-trans-ideology.html |
British children are 50 times more likely to suffer from 'gender distress' than ten years ago, a new NHS study has revealed.
Analysis of NHS GP records showed that in 2011 just 200 people under the age of 18 identified as transgender or struggled with gender dysphoria, this is compared with more than 10,000 in 2021.
This is a massive jump from around from 1 in 60,000 under 18s in 2011 to 1 in 1200 in 2021.
McHugh still believed transgenderism was a mental disorder 40 years later even though he was attacked regularly by the LGBT community. His own hospital reversed course due to the political environment and has been doing gender reassignment surgeries.
At age 93, I see no evidence that Dr. McHugh has changed his views today.
The science has not changed. However, the politics has.
We see it in the statistics that Ryan Anderson of the Heritage Foundation cites in this commentary from 2018 titled "The Sex-Change Revolution Is Based On Ideology, Not Science".
80% to 95% of children with gender dysphoria will come to embrace and affirm their bodily sex.
41% who identify as transgender will attempt suicide at some point in their lives.
People who have sex transition surgery are 19 times more likely than average to die from suicide.
If you doubt that politics took over the science on this issue consider the following questions.
Would it be proper to encourage someone with anorexia to be on a low-calorie diet or to have their stomach stapled?
Would we allow someone with xenomelia (the feeling that one or more limbs do not belong) to be encouraged to have an amputation?
Of course not.
The biology of the body is immutable. The human mind can be altered and change. The human mind is also very powerful. It can make us believe many things that are not true.
We don't allow a person to amputate their own arm or leg merely because in their mind they do not believe the reality of their own biology.
The same is true of those who suffer with anorexia. These individuals starve themselves as they believe in their mind that they are overweight. We don't ignore the biology, agree with them and take their nourishment away to cater to their delusion.
In each case, we treat their mental illness with concern and compassion for their long-term wellbeing.
We do not affirm their delusion and let them do long-term harm to themselves. We certainly should not allow that if they are minor children with a brain that is not fully developed with a lifetime ahead of them.
Trump's order does not in any way effect what a consenting adult over the age of 18 wants to do to their body.
It is limited to those 18 and under who have their entire life ahead of them and may not fully understand the irreversible effects that gender reassignment procedures will have on their future lives.
It escapes me as to why anyone believes that such life altering treatments for minors can be a good idea. If a fully consenting 25 or 35 year old wants to do it, an argument can be made that is their choice. However, it seems to me to be the height of malpractice to do this to a minor in which neurological science shows that those under age 19 do not have anything close to a fully developed brain.
Why is any of this controversial?
Why do transgender activists see it as so important to be doing gender reassignment to children?
Why can't these irreversible procedures be delayed a few years to insure that it really conforms to who they are?
Why is this just not plain old common sense?
Why is it that those who believe this are the ones who are called crazy, cruel and callous?
