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The ‘Trans’ Child as Experimental Guinea Pig
by Madeleine Kearns
(National Review, April 4 2019)
[…] Transgenderism is the theory that each person has an innate gender identity that is distinct from that person’s sex. Theories about gender identity were pioneered by sexologists and academics in the mid 20th century, and they remain widely contested and poorly understood. Despite this, they are being applied in a radical and experimental way to children worldwide. Parents and professionals agonize over the fear that young people will suffer physical and psychological harm from the application of transgender theory, but all too often they are cowed into submission.
[…] These changes appear to be a result of politicization, rather than solid evidence. Sheila Jeffreys, a feminist and the author of Gender Hurts, recently told National Review that “you need to look at who the funders [of WPATH] are. . . . It’s drug companies.” She added that “the situation with children is . . . very, very profitable for drug companies” because young patients can become dependent on these drugs for life.
[…] What evidence supports “gender affirmation”? In a letter to the editor published last fall in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Endocrine Society’s leading journal, a group of endocrinologists who specialize in gland and hormone disorders state that “there are no laboratory, imaging, or other objective tests to diagnose a ‘true transgender’ child.” Therefore, they ask, “how can a physician ethically administer GAT [gender-affirmation therapy] knowing that a significant number of patients will be irreversibly harmed?” Answering this question is urgent because gender dysphoria among youth is increasing at an astonishing rate.
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See Also:
Lesson from History: Transgender Mania is Sign of Cultural Collapse - Camille Paglia
Author, art professor, feminist, and cultural commentator Camille Paglia speaks on the current transgender mania, the wisdom of early medical & surgical intervention (calling it "child abuse"), and how the explosion of gender identities is a recurring sign of cultural collapse throughout the history of civilization.
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Dr Quentin Van Meter: The Terrible Fraud of Transgender Medicine
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by Michelle A. Cretella, M.D.
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Volume 21 Number 2 Summer 2016
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by Lisa Marchiano
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by Ryan T. Anderson (Review by David Robertson, Wee Flea)
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The Prime Minister’s transgender proposals dangerously oversimplify a complex mental health issueby Dr Rick Thomas (17 Oct 2018, Christian Medical Fellowship)
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Wider philosophical background: Societal stages of "Historicism" -
Herman Dooyeweerd: Humanism’s historicist swing from classical fixed values to a radical relativism
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