Gender Ideology Run Amok

Imprimis ^ | June/July 2021 | Abigail Shrier

[Retain Mike]

In 2007, America had one pediatric gender clinic; today there are hundreds. Testosterone is readily available to adolescents from places like Planned Parenthood and Kaiser, often on a first visit—without even a therapist’s note.

How did we get to this point? How is it that we are all supposed to pretend that the only way you can know I’m a woman is if I tell you my pronouns? How did we get to an America in which a 13-year-old in the State of Washington can begin “gender affirming” therapy without her parents’ consent? How did we get to an America in which a 15-year-old in Oregon can undergo “top surgery”—elective double mastectomy—without her parents’ permission? And what can we do about it?

This is a movement that would turn our children against themselves because its advocates know there is no greater harm—no quicker way to bring America to its knees—than by driving our children to do themselves irreversible damage. The people pushing this ideology have gotten a head start on us by perhaps a decade. But now I think they have awakened a sleeping giant. The success of my book is one indication. The many state legislatures that are now debating these issues is another.

[Retain Mike]

This is truly sick.

[Harpotoo]

This current generation will be like the current afghans when the PRCs team up with Russia and come for our resources.

[PROCON]

I read this the other day, sick indeed and stunning how quickly it spread and was accepted.

[omega4412]

Today, a fashionable way for the Woke to win Darwin awards.

Twenty years from now, class action lawsuits

[blackdog]

It will get very old and stupid soon enough. Lessons must be learned. Tragic certainty.

[mrmeyer]

"whenever I am asked by a transgender adult, I use his or her chosen name and pronouns. This seems to me the courteous and the right thing to do."

Enabling the lie is not the right thing to do.

[CharlesOConnell]

Technically it was all settled many years ago by Paul McHugh, M.D., Johns-Hopkins former chair of psychiatry, as described in a 2004 First Things article Surgical Sex, that the majority of them have a paraphilia called autogynephilia in which they want to be women so they can envision themselves performing certain activities with women, as newly-made Lesbians.

[Trillian]

How else is the left going to continue to weaken our country?

[ro_dreaming]

How did we get to an America in which a 15-year-old in Oregon can undergo “top surgery”—elective double mastectomy—without her parents’ permission? And what can we do about it?

If the parents insurance paid for it, you damn well better let them have a say in it.

This is truly evil rearing its head.

The time ain’t far, and, well, I for one hope it’s very soon, for this all to be over with.

[Organic Panic]

It’s all about the money.