Author: Naomi Schaefer Riley Via Commentary Magazine
The Views of the Author are not necessarily the Views of Enigmose
A few years ago, three things happened in the course of a single week in my life. First, a friend told me about a letter her daughter, then 11, had received from her closest summer-camp friend. The girl had some big news: She was now a boy.
Then, another mother told me she and her daughter were sitting at a synagogue lunch when they were joined by a man who “presented” as a woman. And I received a lengthy email from my daughter’s swim coach at the local YWCA—a man whose missives had never included anything besides practice times and requests for volunteer timers—explaining that someone on the team had come out as transgender; the coach attached an entire Washington Post article explaining how we should treat the child and the proper pronouns we should use to refer to “them.”
I had been reading articles for years about the transgender movement; I knew someone in college who had transitioned. But suddenly every suburban mom I ran into had a story about her children’s school or extracurricular activity that involved a transgendered child.
I had been reading articles for years about the transgender movement; I knew someone in college who had transitioned. But suddenly every suburban mom I ran into had a story about her children’s school or extracurricular activity that involved a transgendered child. And the other thing was that, as thoroughly bizarre as many of these mothers found it—if a child was gay, they completely understood, but how can you just wake up one day and decide you’re actually a boy?—they dared not say anything, at least not above a whisper.
If you want to understand why suddenly it seems that (mostly) young girls from (mostly) white middle- or upper-class backgrounds (many of whom are in the same friend groups) have decided to start dressing like boys, cutting their hair short, changing their name to a masculine one, and even taking hormones, using chest compressors, and getting themselves surgically altered, you must read Abigail K. Shrier’s urgent new book, Irreversible Damage.
Shrier, a lawyer by training, began her journey into this topic with a 2018 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about how the state of California had enacted a law threatening jail time for health-care workers who failed to use patients’ preferred gender pronouns. As she notes in the book: “If the government can’t force students to salute a flag, the government can’t force a healthcare worker to utter a particular pronoun. In America, the government can’t make people say things—not even for the sake of politeness. Not for any reason at all.”
Historically, gender dysphoria—“characterized by a severe and persistent discomfort in one’s own biological sex”—begins in early childhood. It affected a tiny sliver of the population and was almost exclusively found in boys. Around 10 years ago, all that changed. Now the number of cases has skyrocketed, the sufferers are overwhelmingly girls, and none of it is happening until adolescence. They’re generally from white families with higher incomes. And there are “clusters of adolescents in a single grade, suddenly discovering transgender identities together.”
when it comes to gender dysphoria, therapists are supposed to adhere to the “affirmative care standard,” which basically means telling a patient his or diagnosis is correct and then figuring out how to “treat” it.
And the treatment is unlike any other medical treatment. The doctors Shrier interviews explain that how much testosterone they offer patients is largely an aesthetic choice. How much facial hair do you want? How low do you want your voice to go? And unlike even cosmetic surgery, these treatments will (by their very nature) result in the destruction of certain healthy bodily functions. Cosmetic surgeons do not end the ability of their patients to breastfeed or give birth—but that is exactly what transition surgeons are doing.
If someone decides to “de-transition”—that is, she starts to believe that her biological gender was the right one after all—she is shunned, harassed, and threatened online. And current believers are warned not to have anything to do with her.
And then there is the way that these girls find out about gender dysphoria to begin with. Usually it’s online or through friends who have found out online. They watch hour upon hour of YouTube videos by transgender stars, describing their transition and explaining how much happier their lives are now. (Shrier interestingly observes that the testosterone itself is a potent drug, making girls feel more confident and powerful.) Then these stars encourage girls to seek out help from therapists behind their parents’ backs—something a surprising number of schools are happy to comply with.
If their parents push back, the activists online give the girls a script to follow, explaining that they should threaten self-harm if they are not allowed to transition. And then this same online community will instruct them to cut themselves off from any family members who are less than supportive. Finally, these online celebrities and their followers will offer to be a replacement “glitter” family. Shrier is correct: This is exactly how cults work.
Typically, cults are most successful when they prey on people who are feeling vulnerable. .... Full Article @ Commentary Magazine
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