Thursday Open Comments

Daily Wire reports a story about the “affirming transgenderism is a good idea” being a bunch of hooey.

To summarize part of the story, the study that most pro-trans people depend on is a Dutch study – an environment where there is strict screening for those receiving the surgeries. They have to be adults, mentally competent, etc.  This is completely different than here in the states, where kids and/or the mentally confused are socially pushed into mutilating their bodies.

 The American approach is designed to reduce “gatekeeping” by entreating clinicians to deferring to patients’ own self-diagnosis. In the U.S., most pediatric patients referred to gender clinics today appear to be females with no prepubertal history of dysphoria and very high rates of mental health problems.

And the follow-up periods for these surgeries is 18 months – whereas it can take ten years for real regret to become a problem.

 “Two studies found that the average time to regret is around 10 years—and keep in mind that almost all the data in these studies comes from those who transitioned as adults and were gathered before the ‘affirming’ model and its hostility to safeguards became widespread.”

And the study results have yet to be replicated.  Replication is important in affirming scientific findings.  In fact, quite the opposite has been the case:

The results of the Dutch studies have still never been replicated, and the only attempt to do so by researchers in the UK yielded very different conclusions. The 2021 British study results actually found increases in “internalizing problems and body dissatisfaction” following puberty suppression, according to one report.

And, like the climate changemongers, when the results don’t fit your agenda, feel free to lie about it:

Another study Turban cited in his article was conducted by researchers at the University of Washington. But in August, it was revealed that the school deliberately withheld information that would damage its reputation and public standing. UW Medicine was caught distorting the results of a study on “gender affirming” care outcomes.

Researchers at UW Medicine found that the use of puberty blockers and hormones didn’t improve the mental health of trans-identified teens, but published a study claiming they did. Internal emails reveal that when the researchers were caught, officials at UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital advised each other against correcting the misinformation they put out.

So many kids are being mutilated by their virtue signaling parents wanting the latest trophy kid.  It used to be they would get a kid from say, Africa.  Now they just take their own kids and chop them up.  Or dress them in strange ways.  Or indoctrinate them into a form of sexuality that violates what we in the Catholic Church call “natural law” – how our bodies are supposed to work.

I despise parents like this.  Those children should be getting psychiatric care, instead of having mental instabilities being fed or developed those in whose care they are entrusted.

Personally, those parents are just as unstable as their kids.  IMHO, liberalism is codependency writ large.  A codependent is one whose view of self is entangled in how others see or act towards them.  They are reactive personalities; e.g., “This is the socially desirable behavior, and I want to be socially desirable, so I’ll engage in this behavior.”  The idea of not going along with the latest social norms is anathema.  Their acceptance of themselves is bound up in the acceptance of others.  There is a sense of narcissism in all of this.  It’s all about how those folks feel about themselves, not what is best for their childrens’ futures.  And these folks, being socially fragile, lash out if their views are challenged.

Karens of the world, unite!  Remember the videos of people more than willing to verbally or physically attack those who wouldn’t mask up?  Not wearing a mask was a challenge to their propped up sense of righteousness, of how society should work.

Currently, the social agenda norm is sexual perversion of all sorts. It’s the latest “in” thing.  So, sacrifice children on the altar of social acceptance.  I wonder if/how those families will hold together when the children grow up and realize their fertility was sacrificed so their parents could feel good about themselves?

Of course, this is my personal take, but the news article is well worth reading.