@obennzousann@ItohMaki You’ll be surprised at how it spreads. Japan had a well studied epidemic of anorexia in the 90’s that can be directly traced back to western media. This is going to be the same thing. In the US and UK, we saw a 1000% increase in children trans medicalization over only 5 years.
@zoverions@jk_rowling Many parents object to these treatments and risk losing custody as a result. Children’s hospitals don’t consult the parents. They immediately push puberty blockers, at the first visit.
I know this first hand. If you don’t know this, you have 0 knowledge of what is going on.
Miles Yardley was put on estrogen at his second visit to the gender clinic at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia at the age of 15. The clinicians referred to him as a "perfect example" of a transgender child.
Going trans gave him a lot of clout in New York City's fashion and art worlds but it came at a price of medical risks and harms: in April 2024, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and hypothyroidism, both conditions with suspected links to wrong sex hormone injections.
He is now off hormones, stuck in a female-looking body, abandoned by doctors who were zealous about transitioning him but have no idea about what to do with someone detransitioning, and suing CHOP for medical malpractice.
“If you’re a gender-nonconforming kid, you should be allowed to be yourself. I think that was the biggest problem. I didn’t feel like I could be confident in who I was. And if that person happens to like singing and dancing and cooking and Barbie dolls, who really cares? You can be a boy who likes that,” Yardley says.
“At the time, nobody in my life told me that was possible.”
That you should take such kids and subject them to the ultimate sexual violence, leaving them sterile, anorgamsic, and kept on a medical leash for life, is the foundational premise of the transgender movement.
You could just leave them alone and let them grow into healthy, intact bodies instead of profiting off of brainwashing them to yearn to be chemically castrated and dismembered.
Whenever good liberals talk about "protecting trans kids" or "saving the dolls," they mean using the force of law to ensure that only the first of these options happen and never the second. They truly believe they are being heroes and saviors while they do this, as they work to inflict the ultimate sexual violence on confused children who simply needed a more tolerant and accepting world.
@ClawsLate@wokal_distance 4% of high school kids ID as trans. Everyone with school aged kids has been affected. It used to be “less than 1%”. Every child now knows a little lord Fauntleroy demanding special treatment. The issue isn’t going away.
@holybullies@JDVance@bluesky Please read the Cass Review. Transitioning minors is barbarism and condemned by many western countries. Making this a left/right issue is a gift to republicans. The science is very clear that it’s a shitty cult.
@ZacInOhio@politicalmath Parents who don’t want their kids on puberty blockers lose custody in several blue states. It’s horrific. Often the child suddenly demands treatment, and drs threaten the parents. There is no laissez-faire on this issue.
@TheBigRedLie@Riley_Gaines_ We tried open categories and then people refused to enter them. There were no other athletes able to fight back. The women on Thomas’ team were threatened with ruin if they complained. Are you aware she’s faced down violence at SFU? Shame on YOU
@twidhson@rustysteeltoes In all seriousness- the doctor who developed the Dutch protocol has exactly warned of this issue. Affirm-only means a dragnet that castrates any confused kids. Many gay adults experienced gender dysphoria as children.
How can a 10 year old possibly consent to chemical castration?
@twidhson@EmGeeJay_@libsoftiktok These are two separate issues. At no point did being a lesbian spike 4,000% amongst only adolescent girls. The statistics around trans are grim. It is an obvious social contagion.
@twidhson@libsoftiktok Hard disagree. Read the Cass report. Children specifically are harmed by social affirmation. Wait-and-see is the only ethical approach. The inventor of the Dutch protocol has admitted it’s a failure and a dragnet for gay children.
@bwwgpro1@wesyang@feelsdesperate This exact scenario happened to my family. The school counselor, psychiatrists and ngo’s cheerleading the whole way. Zero consideration of preexisting mental illness or history of trauma. Eventually she just grew out of it.
@feministbirther@TerfSchool A perfect description, thank you. It IS crazy feeling, like I can’t believe these are the problems we have to deal with, instead of flying cars.
@MuuPuklip@sharrond62 They, and their parents, were preemptively given a letter by UPenn threatening to yank their scholarships and/or have future careers damaged if they complained.
@oldemptyeye@wesyang Remember the buried Olson-Kennedy paper that we publicly funded?
The science was already done by clinicians in the 90’s. They grow up, and the supermajority desist. Hence “wait-and-see” being the only empirically proven approach. But that doesn’t yield $3 million per patient.