Posted on 04/12/2024 9:21:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s been a red-letter week for destroying the gender narrative. And the trans juggernaut just hit another speed bump.
Transitioning children not only harms them physically and psychologically, but it also causes medical conflicts. (Sangiao Photography/Shutterstock)
Fresh off the heels of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announcing that it would not allow transgender-identified men to compete in women’s athletic events in any of its association’s 239 small private schools, a landmark study was released on Wednesday that defies the hysterical warning that if gender dysphoric adolescents don’t receive “gender-affirming care,” they will kill themselves.
The new study from British pediatrician Dr. Hilary Cass confirms what we’ve always known: Children presenting with sudden onset gender dysphoria are actually suffering from other mental health diagnoses—not true gender dysphoria. Her research debunks the gender ideologues’ frequent talking point: that the imposition of medical “gender-affirming care” on mentally ill children is not only necessary, but life-saving.
Cass’ research instead reveals that children who think they are transgender disproportionately have mental health issues stemming from a difficult family situation or domestic abuse. They are also more likely to be neurodiverse and have a co-morbid autism spectrum disorder.
Cass reveals that “gender affirming” medical interventions would not remedy any of these psychological issues. Effectively using such interventions would mean turning a blind eye to the real underlying psychological distress with which gender-confused children often struggle.
Cass’ groundbreaking report reveals that mental health therapy is the best approach for gender-dysphoric children, rather than rushing to put them on hormones or puberty blockers or performing mutilating and irreversible surgeries.
Her report also warns that if children are permitted to make choices to physically and socially conform with their gender of choice, rather than receiving the necessary treatment for their underlying mental health issues, they will experience significant negative psychological repercussions.
Yes, you read that right. Securing medical “gender affirming” care creates the negative psychological repercussions gender identitarians warn us about. And the failure to receive it does not.
At last, the narrative about adolescent gender dysphoria has started to crumble.
Conservatives and gender critics have long warned against rushing to chemically castrate and mutilate gender-confused kids, advocating instead for the European approach of “watchful waiting” and mental health counseling. It seems they were right all along.
Cass’ report on gender dysphoria was the second damning study to be released in 10 days. It was launched soon after another study that breaches the once seemingly impenetrable dam of gender identity built by the White House, cultural elites, celebrities, and politicized medical groups.
A Dutch study of 2,700 children revealed that a significant majority of gender-confused children grow out of that feeling by the time they are full grown adults. This newly published research tracked adolescents for over 15 years and found that gender confusion in children drastically decreased over time, supporting the argument that when children believe they are transgender, it is often nothing more than a passing sensation—and not indisputable fact.
Both Cass’ study and the recent Dutch study argue against transitioning kids who report gender dysphoria. Together, they advise for holistic treatment of these adolescents, treatment which addresses the complex psychological reasons a child may think he or she was born in the wrong body.
Gender-confused children have been lied to, and the adults who have lied to them must be held accountable. The flood of litigation challenging these pernicious practices is only just beginning.
Reprinted by permission from The Daily Signal, a publication of The Heritage Foundation.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times .
Yes, they go from home with normal parents only to meet a teacher whose college work probably wasn’t on par with a HS grad in the mid-70s. These newly minted social justice warriors are introduced to homosexuality in college by the Professors who are themselves targeting younger flesh for their own consumption. They fill their heads with stories of Marxism and everyone sharing everything to include their bodies.
Worst case is the kids have parents who are the 10-percenter’s who swing both ways or are now openly gay. They send their kids to school to taunt the Christian kids, and to screw with conservatives. They make the case for abortion, steralization and murder by parents and people who are generally of good will - the trigger issue. Transgenderism.
Tyrants, tyranity, TRANNY: The Democrats and their homosexual 2-percenter’s show the world two sick lessons not yet learned.
1. Gays always, alwyas, always (well 99.9% of the time), place themselves into bathrooms, schools, libraries, scout troops, chruch bands, etc. They are attracted to younger flesh - and they want flesh they can overpower by Queer Reason or physical power.
2. The DNC and Gays devised the TRANNY angle as a foil to God.
Now, do people who represent .4% of the true population get to groom or put themselves into situations or professions back by laws where they can harm children...? Where they can erase the public rights and appearance of Christianity.
God help these sick people when the enviable collaspe in society appears - say another 1929, and all the people who had jobs have nothing better to do than get rid of the people who have made their lives and their children’s lives a living hell. The only thing that allows the Democrats to get away with their Sexual Perversion is that normal people are too busy working or have too much to lose to deal with these people.
Joe Biden may just be creating the conditions where the mentally ill are separated from the rest of society. When nobody has a job and these protestors show up, or the pedifiles, or the rapists, or murders who are not charged the people will PROTEST. It won’t be just Democrats (Students/Unempoyed/Teachers out protesting or spreading disease), but everyone else who has for years gotten sick to death of their mockery.
These freaks HATE GOD
Freaks being the “doctors” committing these Frankenstein mutalations ?? The Rx companies ? The so called shrinks , the head doctors , the frauds, the child molesters, those freaks ?
ALL THOSE ARE FREAKS THAT HATE GOD!
Those people are demons in the true sense of the word.
You don’t see women trying to play men’s sports.
Death penalty for *all* adults involved in organized child castration. Doctors, teachers, promoters, the lot.
You are exactly correct
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