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As I was researching this piece, "The Transgender Children’s Crusade," I was continually in a state of disbelief. Was it possible that so many smart, well-meaning people thought children and teens were capable of understanding their "identity"? city-journal.org/article/the-tr…
Child and adolescent psychology, as well as relevant legal and cultural traditions, were predicated on the idea that minors are unfinished, in flux, still developing. That's why they don't vote, can't sign contracts, buy alcohol, etc. Now not only do supposed experts
presume that children can know their "authentic selves," their essentialist "gender identity," but that society should "affirm" what those children think to the point of promoting life-changing medical procedures including mastectomies and castration.
Noticing the absurdity of treating children as mature decision-makers in these most consequential decisions is now often dismissed as transphobia. But it is not bigotry to insist on the difference between children and adults; it is a truth essential to any functioning society.
Read the article to get a fuller picture of the dangerous delusion that has infected so many American institutions. @LeorSapir @SwipeWright @wesyang @NaomiSRiley @BradWilcoxIFS @CHSommers @PamelaParesky @wil_da_beast630 @asymmetricinfo
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