Posted on 05/24/2019 3:56:39 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Dan Zadra once wrote, “worry is a misuse of the imagination.” In January of this year, after coming across a particularly worrying piece in the Atlantic, I misused my imagination. Sorry, Mr. Zadra.
Titled “Young Trans Children Know Who They Are,” the piece focused on transgender children — those of whom identify as a different gender from the one they were assigned at birth. Ed Yang, the author of the piece, argues that, from an early age, children already have a strong sense of identity. He contends that some children as young as three already have a strong sense of their identity. If a three-year-old boy tells his parents that he identifies as a girl, Mommy and Daddy shouldn’t just listen, they should consider gender reassignment surgery. After all, although he is only three, the boy clearly knows what he wants.
Rather worryingly, an increasing number of parents appear to be listening, and acquiescing, to such ludicrous demands. According to a 2018 paper by Nic Rider, a University of Minnesota postdoctoral fellow who studies transgender health, the number of U.S. teens and pre-teens identifying themselves using other nontraditional gender terms is on the rise. The paper appeared in Pediatrics, a peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
In an accompanying opinion article, Dr. Daniel Shumer, a specialist in transgender medicine at the University of Michigan, complimented Rider’s findings. Shumer also stated that the study echoes other research suggesting that earlier counts of the trans population “have been underestimated by orders of magnitude. Youth are rejecting this binary thinking and are asking adults to keep up.”
To keep up with what, exactly, Dr. Shumer?
According to a 2018 piece in the Federalist, doctors have been accepting cases of underage girls who identify as males for quite some time
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Yes, I’ve thought the same thing: many trans youth have no father at home.
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