This Year Feels Different
Those of us touched by the trans cult have been patiently waiting for the rest of the world to wake up to this medical and psychiatric scandal. We have seen our children suffer, have had our concerns dismissed by medical professionals, and had our parenting skills questioned, if not vilified, for our failure to affirm. Our request for evidence of the efficacy of the medical experiment being run on children was dismissed out of hand.
Meanwhile we saw the evidence pile up of that THIS IS NOT WORKING. Every year there were more studies, more doctors expressing concern, more lawsuits, more countries walking back from the gender affirmation model. Not that we needed outside evidence. Each family with a trans-identified, medicalized child is seeing their own mini experiment being run in real time. We have witnessed first-hand the detrimental effects of cross-sex hormones on young bodies.
But maybe, just maybe, 2024 was different. The drip, drip, drip of evidence that women cannot become men, men cannot become women, and pretending otherwise has tragic implications for those who medicalized to subvert this reality, has become a fire hose.
As we close out the year, here are some highlights (if that is the correct word) of how much things are changing:
Gender ideology has made it to the US Supreme Court, as we all knew it would, in US vs. Skrmetti. In December, a challenge to Tennessee’s state-wide ban on “gender-affirming” care for children was heard in the US Supreme Court. The decision is pending but it was clear to most observers that the conservatives on the court had done their research beforehand while the liberals were espousing gender affirming talking points.
In Boe v. Marshall, Alabama’s ban on hormonal and surgical transgender procedures for minors is being challenged. The review of documents in this case reveal just how deep the rot goes. They show that WPATH manipulated the evidence review process when drafting its recommendations for treating youth and adults. Documents show that Rachel Levine, a top official at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, used an aide to pressure WPATH to eliminate age minimums for procedures including double mastectomy and genital surgery. Documents show that members of WPATH’s guideline-development group privately denounced the American Academy of Pediatrics’s 2018 policy statement on “gender-affirming care” as non-evidence based and as having “a very weak methodology.”
Italy has joined the UK, Hungary, Poland, France, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium in banning puberty blockers for minors. Apparently, they are unsafe for children and adolescents overseas but the negative consequences are ameliorated when puberty blockers come to America.
The Democrats lost the election and trans ideology was a hot topic. Sam Harris gives an excellent summary here: “A shocking percentage of Democrats imagine that all the controversy about trans rights and gender identity in kids is just right wing bigotry, and a non-issue politically, whereas it is obvious that for millions of Americans it might as well have been the only issue in this election–not because they’re transphobic assholes, but because they simply do not accept the new metaphysics, and even the new biology, mandated by trans activists and the institutions that they have successfully bullied and captured.“
Turns out that people still don’t like to see men beat up women. But that’s what they witnessed in Olympic women’s boxing this summer as a male boxer beat the crap out of his female opponents, crushing the dreams of women who had trained for years to compete in a female only event. A subsequently leaked medical report confirmed the boxer has XY chromosomes and is a man. The pushback on this shows the support for female only sports.
The leaked WPATH (the World Professional Association of Transgender Health) documents exposed how their member prioritized ideology over science. WPATH was aware of the debilitating and potentially fatal side effects of cross-sex hormones and other “gender affirming” treatments but they buried the findings.
Lawsuits against clinicians are stacking up. US detransitioner Clementine Breen recently announced that she is suing one of the world’s preeminent practitioners of ‘transgender medicine’, Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy. Breen was referred to Olson-Kennedy’s clinic, where she was prescribed puberty blockers at age 12, hormones at 13 and a double mastectomy at 14. Now 20, Breen believes the sexual abuse she suffered as a child was the real cause of the psychological discomfort she felt with her body but this was not considered. The failure to explore alternative causes and treatment for gender dysphoria is a common thread among detransistioners and one the courts will be hearing again and again.
The Cass Review is the big enchilada. UK pediatrician, Dr Hilary Cass, published a review of NHS gender-identity services for children. It warns that the medical pathway is unsuitable for most young people with gender issues and recommend clinicians move with extreme care before allowing anyone under the age of 25 to take pharmaceutical steps to ‘transition’ to look like the opposite sex.
Perhaps in the coming years the US will catch up with the rest of the civilized world. Perhaps no child will be subject to sterilization because they are gender non-conforming. Perhaps the people who perpetrated this medical scandal will be brought to justice.
All of that is to the good. But, if you have a child caught up in this madness, it’s cold comfort to know it won’t happen to any more kids but yours is lost.
Happy New Year
Exactly! Obviously nobody wants any more children harmed, but what about the ones already harmed? We need more than puberty blockers banned worldwide (although that would be an amazing thing!), we need the entire ideology dismantled, we need it to be uncool among the teenagers and young adults, we need to return to regular pronouns and normal language to describe women and breastfeeding etc, we need men out of women's sports and changerooms and prisons, crisis centres etc. Even though it does feel like the tide is turning, there's still a long way to go, and sadly, it's too late for some of us 😢
Thank you for saying it like it is for me as a parent. I am noticing that the world is starting to speak about, study, and fight against the harm and devastation of trans insanity. Each day I wake up to this living nightmare. Transgender ideology needs to be eliminated and reparations for those who have been harmed by it should be made. Pushing ALL transgenders to detransition needs to be at the forefront. They need to understand that they were swept into a devastating mass social psychosis and that they are victims of a cult. My son was sucked into the insane trans movement as a vulnerable 25 year old young adult during Covid. I may never see him again. Halting trans hormonal therapy and surgeries needs to happen through the law and not only to children under the age of 18, but also to all transgenders, no matter their age. And, the affirmation therapists need to be seen through the law as illegal and fraudulent mental health practitioners. Their WPATH-inspired practices need to be shut down. Their type of pseudo psychology as a practice has to be outlawed. Any transgender who sought psychological therapy with an affirmation therapist should be told that the care and advice they received from this so-called expert was nothing more than destructive brainwashing. Legitimate psychological services should be offered to those who were drawn into becoming a transgender through affirmation therapists and the trans movement. Family therapy should be given through these psychological services as a part of this help to reunite detransitioners with their families. They should repair families like mine that have lost a son/brother or daughter/sister to the trans movement.