Dear “University President",
You have our sympathies. This has to be a very difficult time to be a University president, especially at the world-renowned institution that is xxx. We follow with interest and sympathy the fight for racial justice being pursued on campus. We have also been keeping tabs on the University’s approach to the coronavirus.
You see, until “month, year” our child was a student there. She left shortly after the start of her xx year. Her life was subsumed by mental health issues and trans ideology. If you think your university has bypassed the other large controversy swirling now, trans-ideology, we are here to tell you, you are mistaken.
We won’t inundate you with the sad details of our daughter’s experience with both the University and the University Healthcare system. We only suggest that you ask some hard questions of your administration and the healthcare system starting with:
What is the reason for the exponential increase in young women desiring to transition?
If there was a change of this magnitude in any other health phenomenon (decrease in cancer rate, increase in diabetes, you name it) wouldn’t be there a desire to investigate and understand the cause? Especially before treatment begins?
What long term studies are there on the efficacy of cross-sex hormone therapy?
What study supports the contention that the suicide rate is higher among young adults for whom gender affirmation is not the first line of treatment?
If this increase in transition is due to its wider acceptance in society, why is the increase disproportionately affecting young woman? Why do so many of them have other mental health issues (OCD, anxiety and depression)?
We could fill this page with requests for data-based, scientific evidence of the treatment plan our child was prescribed but won’t. You can easily Google that topic to discover the lack of information. But you see where we are going with this. We fear that xxx University is failing its students, and is failing to meet the most basic tenet of health care – do no harm. We love and support our child. We will not insult your intelligence by trying to convince you that we are not homophobic or transphobic. We are neither. But we are convinced that treatment for gender dysphoria (or any health condition) should start with the least invasive treatment, in this case, mental health therapy.
Transitioning is undoubtedly the correct course for some. But should that life altering decision be made at 18 years of age while in the throes of mental illness? According to xxx University, the answer is a definitive yes. And please, no defense that the university healthcare system is divorced from the university itself. We entrusted our child to the institution. The legal hair splitting is of no interest to us.
As we enter the 21st century who could have thought it would be acceptable for young women to be affirmed in their belief that they are in the wrong bodies and that the correct course of treatment is for them to have their breasts removed, their genitals mutilated, be medicated for life and become infertile? This is happening on your watch. Now you can’t say you didn’t know.
The above was mailed to the university president of my daughter’s former university.
The President's response was along the lines of "I'm sure the University Health Care Service is serving him well."
The gender studies programs are at the heart of this nightmare. For parents paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to have their kids indoctrinated in Judith Butler’s circular magic thinking their should be grounds to sue these universities. If they cannot teach facts in basic biology and human development they are failing students and society and should suffer the consequences. I lost a kid and her three friends ( no group think there) to the great women's studies program at a prestigious university. Three sets of healthy breasts disposed of along with lots of testosterone leaving three sets of devastated families.
I sent one of these letters (actually 3) to my son’s PhD professors and the director of his program. I was ignored, told on more than one occasion that my concerns would be ignored. I also mentioned to them that there were multiple lawsuits coming and they were not immune. I stated that if anything happened to my kid, I would be one of the parents suing (that was after receiving dismissive emails back).