Hmm. I live in the Netherlands and I am am familiar with the abovementioned clinic. What strikes me is that the end point is surgery - transition. At no point is it acceptable to stop the process or divert from it. A lot of money and resources are invested in the process. This is not health-care - this is a business model
That was a lot of interesting and good information to try to absorb, but the bottom line seems to be summarized in these last sentences: "While it seems clear that Desistance is typical with children or youth with GD this is only when they have not been socially and medically affirmed. If they are directed down the gender pathway this significantly increases the permanence of the GD." Clearly this is common sense as well as factual. All of these kids that have fallen into the trans rabbit hole were led there, pushed down it, or they followed someone else - affirmation 101 and social contagion both play a huge part in a child believing the trans ideology. Not socially or medically affirming any child will keep them safe until they can accept or outgrow or realize that that their fear of puberty is just that: fear of the unknown. We have to do better as a society to help these kids without adding more mental, emotion and physical trauma to their immature and developing minds. Desistence needs to always be supported and applauded but we also need to help these kids BEFORE they are brainwashed.
Reading down to the bottom, the question of the title is answered:
"While it seems clear that Desistance is typical with children or youth with GD this is only when they have not been socially and medically affirmed. If they are directed down the gender pathway this significantly increases the permanence of the GD."
These children and adolescents desist because they were kept off the trans conveyor belt.
It's the only way all the factors in the middle of the article (mostly the brain maturing and kids realizing trans ideology is harmful nonsense) can come into play.
Not buying it. ASD is the diagnosis du jour. Gender is a mass social contagion. Many diagnoses are much more common than they were 20-30 years ago, in part because they are trendy "identities." It is a sign of our times and the fault of social media and overzealous practitioners, many of whom don't really know what they are doing. The training in mental health changed dramatically around 10 years ago to collude rather than challenge. The autism/vaccine alleged connection was debunked long before science turned into the sh!tshow is is now. I am done here.
A study isn't even needed, it is beyond obvious this is a delusion en mmasse. It swept in, spread like a rotting corpse and was promoted culturally (cultural wars always win the youth), the vulnerable felt a place to belong and the corporate elite had a place to reap in the profit and spread post modern marxist ideologies.
It was always built on sand. It was always going to fall and eat its own tail, it is a complete stage of smoke and mirrors and all the actors are borderline narcissts, the victims are vulnerable empaths and the enablers are the pundits selling the tickets and ushering people in.
May this stain on society be wiped out for good 🙏 Let it fall, let judgement be swift and punishment be fitting. May Truth prevail
I heard a representative of WPATH admit publicly that 60% of trans kids desist. And an ACLU lawyer in front of the Supreme Court admitted that completed suicides are no higher amongst the gender dysphoric than the rest. (Thank goodness!). And of course there was the recent study showing that mental distress is worse, not better, after operative care. The only reason these facts are in debate is because the “affirming side” is a cult filled with bullies who’ve intimidated anyone who questions their profit motives…whoops….i mean their “$cience.”
So freaking tedious... They "desist" because it's not REAL. There is no such thing as a gender identity. That anyone persists at all is because they are enabled by the gender industry.
The Dutch started their experiments on autistic feminine boys in the 1990s I believe? Boston Children's brought the 'Dutch Protocol' to the US in 2007 under direction of Dr Norman Spack.
Thank you for putting this all together so well. I am grateful for every person that comes out of the delusions of the trans cult, but I can't help but wonder how many who "are discovering they are same-sex attracted" would have remained true to their "authentic" heterosexual selves if the boundaries of their sexual identities hadn't been confused by gender ideology to start with.
This article is so well researched and written. It should be read by every high school guidance counselor, nurse, family doctor and clergy person.
The evidence is mounting that transgenderism is an ideological fad. Here’s an anecdotal example. There are two gay women in my family. One was born in the early sixties, the other in the late eighties. The older one was a very masculine girl and young woman who came out as gay in her twenties. She lived a very happy life in a gay community and enjoyed a heathy relationship with her wife. The younger one was a tomboy like her great aunt and came out as gay in a similar fashion. The difference is that she started identifying as transgender and using they/them pronouns, which then progressed into using masculine pronouns. She later had top surgery.
What I am theorizing is that maybe she was influenced by trans ideology. Maybe if she had been born in a different era, she would have identified as a lesbian and then called it a day like so many gay women born in the mid to late twentieth century. Either these young people are ideologically captured, or they represent a sudden mutation in the human species, or even a some kind of spiritual evolution.
Which explanation seems the most probable? I’m voting for ideology.
Concerning “I have never encountered a movement (Transgenderism) that has spread so swiftly and successfully and has so fiercely rejected any challenge to its orthodoxy. "
I would challenge that by saying the same thing happened with the MRNA vaccines.
It's interesting that big pharma benefits from both of these.
There are points of comparison. [1] The profit incentive to give treatment. Every hospital and doctor who brings a child into the so called gender affirming pathway makes that child a money maker for the medical system. Similarly hospitals that become vaccine injection centers gain a source of revenue. In the case of the “pathway” insurance companies are funding. In the case of covid, the taxpayers are funding the vaccine and Fauci’s minions make big salaries. [2] Fake science, lack of informed consent, medical expermentation, refusal to do long term followup or to acknowledge adverse outcomes. [3] coercive measures. In the gender pathway, separating children from parents; in some cases taking children from their home . In vaccination, terminating employment, shutting down businesses, and social ostracism.
I don’t really care about your agenda. Argue that on an antivaxx page. This trans ideology is a metastatized cancer in society that is decades in the making and obliterating women’s rights and harming children. It is eroding institutions internationally.
But what if vaccines ( and pollutants, pesticides) play a large role in why this is happening to more and more children. Isn't the number of ASD cases 1 in 36 now? The pharma industry want to trumpet the 'born that way'narrative so people don't look too hard at why our children end up this way. We might see they aren't born that way, but poisoned that way.
There is a strong connection for sure. However, I think autism is very over self- and peer-diagnosed. Now every teen with a passion , questionable manners ,or just plain introvert is labeled as autistic by self or by peers.
Why is the strong connection to autism spectrum ignored so much? Sometimes it is mentioned regarding the nature of the girls declaring trans ID. But not always. My child is a boy, but typical high functioning autism. With a high IQ. Autism is not talked about enough in relation to who is vulnerable in the mess. Sometimes it is suggested last, like an afterthought. But I have seen stats as high as 50% in some clinics are diagnosed ASD or have some autistic characteristics. So why is it not acknowledged enough? Is it because of the added shame of targeting a highly suggestive, vulnerable, gullible and profoundly trusting group of young people. Who is protecting themselves? The so called autism advocacy groups? They bought into this nonsense totally and threw neurodiverse young people under the bus. Lots of covering of asses going on. Just wondering...
I think the link is being largely ignored because the ideologues know that if it was studied, it would be found that autistic children are identifying as trans because they are more susceptible to influence. And THAT would lead to the question of whether non-autistic kids might also be identifying as trans due to influence, which of course they are, but the activists don't want that discovered.
I am not sure if majority realize they are gay or bisexual. What about Stella and Sasha, tomboys? None of the ones I know are gay or bisexual. Majority were on autism spectrum, uncomfortable with puberty, social contagion and just lost confused and wanted to belong.
Thank you for this link. How to get this devastation out into mainstream news, to medical organizations, therapy community who is completely captured and nonobjective at this point, and politicians?
These once bright, beautiful young adults have no guard rails in place and are being tragically misguided. Please share this news in any and all ways.
So far, only the conservative news outlets will cover these types of stories. Mainstream media ignores them. But I think that will HAVE to change as evidence of the many harms of gender ideology mounts.
A friend (who is a horse vet and animal pathologist (PhD) and is highly trained in the medical field because of this) made this comment after reading the above article: 'Total and complete criminal malpractice and tantamount to murder.'
End Affirmation Care!! Help our youth!! This poor woman is absolutely heartbreaking, this will be my daughter one day when she wakes up and her eyes are opened. God, please help us all!
I cannot even imagine the utter hell for these kids who change their minds after all the surgery. Whatever my 20yr old son ends up doing, he will now forever have these awful tween breasts that stick out no matter what he wears. He is still kind of stuck in all tgis BUT seems to be more non binary than actually presenting as female and I don't know what he truly thinks, but it seems he is ashamed of those breasts as he always wears jumpers even in 40 degree heat. I warned him when he went for it stuff, but nooo, he knew better 🤷♀️ not being cruel, but everytime unsee him, those breasts are all I see. It makes me want to be sick everytime.🤢 and they will NEVER go away. I dont know how to deal with it. I am ashamed as i KNOW all our friends see this and must wonder what's going on, but the whole thing has been secret since it began so it's the elephant in the room. And it's worse the gynaecaomastia cos they REALLY stick out. I HATE them, but if he choses to stop the madness and that's the ONLY damage done, I guess I should be thankful. Sadly, we aren't there yet either. What a stupid path of contradictions... self harm, shame, self hatred, narcissism, vanity, self obsession, madness and delusion.
This whole thing has really done a number on many of us. Needs to end and heads need to roll.
Yep, my daughter is bearded and breastless, when reality hits her, I pray for her life and soul, that she come home to heal. No one else in the world will love them as much as we parents love our children. It will take immeasurable strength on her part to admit wrong, seek healing, seek truth seek reconciliation and rebuild.
This is absolutely heartbreaking. And I do believe that we’re only seeing the beginning of a huge avalanche of detransitioners.
Most of these kids start on the trans path around age 14/15. Ten years later, their brain finally finishes forming. And they snap out of it. There needs to be a law prohibiting ANY medical trans “care” before the age of 25.
Study after study has shown that the vast majority of kids with gender dysphoria simply outgrow it if left alone. Why are we allowing permanent body alterations in a group where only 2-4% will potentially benefit? This is crazy! What other medical intervention that is detrimental to 95% of patients would ever be allowed??
Hmm. I live in the Netherlands and I am am familiar with the abovementioned clinic. What strikes me is that the end point is surgery - transition. At no point is it acceptable to stop the process or divert from it. A lot of money and resources are invested in the process. This is not health-care - this is a business model
That was a lot of interesting and good information to try to absorb, but the bottom line seems to be summarized in these last sentences: "While it seems clear that Desistance is typical with children or youth with GD this is only when they have not been socially and medically affirmed. If they are directed down the gender pathway this significantly increases the permanence of the GD." Clearly this is common sense as well as factual. All of these kids that have fallen into the trans rabbit hole were led there, pushed down it, or they followed someone else - affirmation 101 and social contagion both play a huge part in a child believing the trans ideology. Not socially or medically affirming any child will keep them safe until they can accept or outgrow or realize that that their fear of puberty is just that: fear of the unknown. We have to do better as a society to help these kids without adding more mental, emotion and physical trauma to their immature and developing minds. Desistence needs to always be supported and applauded but we also need to help these kids BEFORE they are brainwashed.
Reading down to the bottom, the question of the title is answered:
"While it seems clear that Desistance is typical with children or youth with GD this is only when they have not been socially and medically affirmed. If they are directed down the gender pathway this significantly increases the permanence of the GD."
These children and adolescents desist because they were kept off the trans conveyor belt.
It's the only way all the factors in the middle of the article (mostly the brain maturing and kids realizing trans ideology is harmful nonsense) can come into play.
Not buying it. ASD is the diagnosis du jour. Gender is a mass social contagion. Many diagnoses are much more common than they were 20-30 years ago, in part because they are trendy "identities." It is a sign of our times and the fault of social media and overzealous practitioners, many of whom don't really know what they are doing. The training in mental health changed dramatically around 10 years ago to collude rather than challenge. The autism/vaccine alleged connection was debunked long before science turned into the sh!tshow is is now. I am done here.
A study isn't even needed, it is beyond obvious this is a delusion en mmasse. It swept in, spread like a rotting corpse and was promoted culturally (cultural wars always win the youth), the vulnerable felt a place to belong and the corporate elite had a place to reap in the profit and spread post modern marxist ideologies.
It was always built on sand. It was always going to fall and eat its own tail, it is a complete stage of smoke and mirrors and all the actors are borderline narcissts, the victims are vulnerable empaths and the enablers are the pundits selling the tickets and ushering people in.
May this stain on society be wiped out for good 🙏 Let it fall, let judgement be swift and punishment be fitting. May Truth prevail
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
https://youtu.be/Na1ZctPaErk?si=geilu66_RhJ7usXD
I heard a representative of WPATH admit publicly that 60% of trans kids desist. And an ACLU lawyer in front of the Supreme Court admitted that completed suicides are no higher amongst the gender dysphoric than the rest. (Thank goodness!). And of course there was the recent study showing that mental distress is worse, not better, after operative care. The only reason these facts are in debate is because the “affirming side” is a cult filled with bullies who’ve intimidated anyone who questions their profit motives…whoops….i mean their “$cience.”
https://youtu.be/Na1ZctPaErk?si=geilu66_RhJ7usXD
So freaking tedious... They "desist" because it's not REAL. There is no such thing as a gender identity. That anyone persists at all is because they are enabled by the gender industry.
excellent essay.
The Dutch started their experiments on autistic feminine boys in the 1990s I believe? Boston Children's brought the 'Dutch Protocol' to the US in 2007 under direction of Dr Norman Spack.
Thank you for putting this all together so well. I am grateful for every person that comes out of the delusions of the trans cult, but I can't help but wonder how many who "are discovering they are same-sex attracted" would have remained true to their "authentic" heterosexual selves if the boundaries of their sexual identities hadn't been confused by gender ideology to start with.
And by no mistake that the confusion was imposed on them during puberty by predators.
Those were the good old days. It starts here in kindergarten by using "people with a penis" and people with a vagina" instead of boys and girls.
True, they start prepping them when their young so that when they head towards puberty, they can start them on the blockers. Simply vile.
This article is so well researched and written. It should be read by every high school guidance counselor, nurse, family doctor and clergy person.
The evidence is mounting that transgenderism is an ideological fad. Here’s an anecdotal example. There are two gay women in my family. One was born in the early sixties, the other in the late eighties. The older one was a very masculine girl and young woman who came out as gay in her twenties. She lived a very happy life in a gay community and enjoyed a heathy relationship with her wife. The younger one was a tomboy like her great aunt and came out as gay in a similar fashion. The difference is that she started identifying as transgender and using they/them pronouns, which then progressed into using masculine pronouns. She later had top surgery.
What I am theorizing is that maybe she was influenced by trans ideology. Maybe if she had been born in a different era, she would have identified as a lesbian and then called it a day like so many gay women born in the mid to late twentieth century. Either these young people are ideologically captured, or they represent a sudden mutation in the human species, or even a some kind of spiritual evolution.
Which explanation seems the most probable? I’m voting for ideology.
Concerning “I have never encountered a movement (Transgenderism) that has spread so swiftly and successfully and has so fiercely rejected any challenge to its orthodoxy. "
I would challenge that by saying the same thing happened with the MRNA vaccines.
It's interesting that big pharma benefits from both of these.
Perhaps you are not in the trenches with this. It’s really not comparable.
There are points of comparison. [1] The profit incentive to give treatment. Every hospital and doctor who brings a child into the so called gender affirming pathway makes that child a money maker for the medical system. Similarly hospitals that become vaccine injection centers gain a source of revenue. In the case of the “pathway” insurance companies are funding. In the case of covid, the taxpayers are funding the vaccine and Fauci’s minions make big salaries. [2] Fake science, lack of informed consent, medical expermentation, refusal to do long term followup or to acknowledge adverse outcomes. [3] coercive measures. In the gender pathway, separating children from parents; in some cases taking children from their home . In vaccination, terminating employment, shutting down businesses, and social ostracism.
I don’t really care about your agenda. Argue that on an antivaxx page. This trans ideology is a metastatized cancer in society that is decades in the making and obliterating women’s rights and harming children. It is eroding institutions internationally.
But what if vaccines ( and pollutants, pesticides) play a large role in why this is happening to more and more children. Isn't the number of ASD cases 1 in 36 now? The pharma industry want to trumpet the 'born that way'narrative so people don't look too hard at why our children end up this way. We might see they aren't born that way, but poisoned that way.
Good review, but it seems to have missed autism spectrum disorders as a major vulnerability.
There is a strong connection for sure. However, I think autism is very over self- and peer-diagnosed. Now every teen with a passion , questionable manners ,or just plain introvert is labeled as autistic by self or by peers.
Why is the strong connection to autism spectrum ignored so much? Sometimes it is mentioned regarding the nature of the girls declaring trans ID. But not always. My child is a boy, but typical high functioning autism. With a high IQ. Autism is not talked about enough in relation to who is vulnerable in the mess. Sometimes it is suggested last, like an afterthought. But I have seen stats as high as 50% in some clinics are diagnosed ASD or have some autistic characteristics. So why is it not acknowledged enough? Is it because of the added shame of targeting a highly suggestive, vulnerable, gullible and profoundly trusting group of young people. Who is protecting themselves? The so called autism advocacy groups? They bought into this nonsense totally and threw neurodiverse young people under the bus. Lots of covering of asses going on. Just wondering...
I think the link is being largely ignored because the ideologues know that if it was studied, it would be found that autistic children are identifying as trans because they are more susceptible to influence. And THAT would lead to the question of whether non-autistic kids might also be identifying as trans due to influence, which of course they are, but the activists don't want that discovered.
I am not sure if majority realize they are gay or bisexual. What about Stella and Sasha, tomboys? None of the ones I know are gay or bisexual. Majority were on autism spectrum, uncomfortable with puberty, social contagion and just lost confused and wanted to belong.
Please read this: https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/06/they-failed-him-cross-sex-hormones-killed-her-gender-confused-son/?mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGZD0-ciZoSUgH_drzQsEuVgGj_J2uc0pH4hAiULWLYEGBiXXP34vCJ_oL18y2JQhORWvU36DOsxCMPmoy3GhzH9TSwQavTZ-dpdAjvF556WlAfcHuoCA
This is SO SOOOO sad 🥺🥺💔
Thank you for this link. How to get this devastation out into mainstream news, to medical organizations, therapy community who is completely captured and nonobjective at this point, and politicians?
These once bright, beautiful young adults have no guard rails in place and are being tragically misguided. Please share this news in any and all ways.
So far, only the conservative news outlets will cover these types of stories. Mainstream media ignores them. But I think that will HAVE to change as evidence of the many harms of gender ideology mounts.
A friend (who is a horse vet and animal pathologist (PhD) and is highly trained in the medical field because of this) made this comment after reading the above article: 'Total and complete criminal malpractice and tantamount to murder.'
End Affirmation Care!! Help our youth!! This poor woman is absolutely heartbreaking, this will be my daughter one day when she wakes up and her eyes are opened. God, please help us all!
https://x.com/benappel/status/1897701937216147563
Hi, I can't seem to open this Link. Is it still available?
They took it down, was so sad, young woman had top and bottom surgery, reality set in, was truly soul crushing to hear from her.
I cannot even imagine the utter hell for these kids who change their minds after all the surgery. Whatever my 20yr old son ends up doing, he will now forever have these awful tween breasts that stick out no matter what he wears. He is still kind of stuck in all tgis BUT seems to be more non binary than actually presenting as female and I don't know what he truly thinks, but it seems he is ashamed of those breasts as he always wears jumpers even in 40 degree heat. I warned him when he went for it stuff, but nooo, he knew better 🤷♀️ not being cruel, but everytime unsee him, those breasts are all I see. It makes me want to be sick everytime.🤢 and they will NEVER go away. I dont know how to deal with it. I am ashamed as i KNOW all our friends see this and must wonder what's going on, but the whole thing has been secret since it began so it's the elephant in the room. And it's worse the gynaecaomastia cos they REALLY stick out. I HATE them, but if he choses to stop the madness and that's the ONLY damage done, I guess I should be thankful. Sadly, we aren't there yet either. What a stupid path of contradictions... self harm, shame, self hatred, narcissism, vanity, self obsession, madness and delusion.
This whole thing has really done a number on many of us. Needs to end and heads need to roll.
Yep, my daughter is bearded and breastless, when reality hits her, I pray for her life and soul, that she come home to heal. No one else in the world will love them as much as we parents love our children. It will take immeasurable strength on her part to admit wrong, seek healing, seek truth seek reconciliation and rebuild.
I pray they both heal soon.
I worry so much for my son and I am so tired.
This is absolutely heartbreaking. And I do believe that we’re only seeing the beginning of a huge avalanche of detransitioners.
Most of these kids start on the trans path around age 14/15. Ten years later, their brain finally finishes forming. And they snap out of it. There needs to be a law prohibiting ANY medical trans “care” before the age of 25.
Study after study has shown that the vast majority of kids with gender dysphoria simply outgrow it if left alone. Why are we allowing permanent body alterations in a group where only 2-4% will potentially benefit? This is crazy! What other medical intervention that is detrimental to 95% of patients would ever be allowed??