THE TRANS CULT IS CRUMBLING IN EUROPE — NOW IT’S AMERICA’S TURN WITH TRUMP
Whoever would have thought that chopping off the healthy breast tissue of 14-year-old girls could mean you end up in court?
Well, anyone, actually, who has been paying any attention to the gender madness of the last decade. In the US, where the practice of medicine is particularly connected to the practice of law, I predict a deluge of court cases over what has been done to children in the name of “gender affirming care”.
Last week, 20-year-old Clementine Breen filed a medical negligence claim against a Los Angeles-based doctor, Johanna Olson-Kennedy, claiming she was rushed into irreversible treatment when she was 12. Olson-Kennedy is the medical director of the Centre for Transyouth Health and Development at the Children’s Hospital in LA.
Claim documents say that Breen saw a school counsellor when she was 12, and was unsure whether she was gay or bisexual or trans. She had experienced sexual abuse at six. It is claimed that Olson-Kennedy did not perform any mental health evaluation herself of Breen, but said she met the criteria for the commencement of puberty blockers.
Within a year she was put on testosterone and at 14 underwent a double mastectomy. No one, it appears, was monitoring her mental health and she began to feel worse and started cutting herself. Olson-Kennedy has also refused to publish the findings of a $10 million taxpayer-funded study showing that puberty blockers did not improve the mental health of children.
Breen now says she may be infertile, and says that she was never evaluated properly. Her parents tried to intervene, but Olson-Kennedy told them that this young girl may be suicidal, even though she had never expressed these thoughts.
This is, after all, the script, isn’t it? That without mutilating the bodies of teenagers, these kids will all kill themselves. That there is no evidence for this doesn’t appear to matter. Until it gets to court and then it does.
This is where Britain and many other European countries are far ahead of America. When evidence of the harmful effects of puberty blockers began to come in via longitudinal studies, the NHS stopped routinely prescribing them to under 18s. Finland, Sweden, Norway and Holland have also stopped prescribing blockers and cross-sex hormones to minors.
Britain has the whistleblowers at the Tavistock Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) and the four years of research headed up by Dr. Hilary Cass to thank for bringing puberty blockers to a halt in the UK.
Though I note that Cass is not on the BBC Women of the Year list, but someone called Brigitte Baptiste, a transgender scientist who says that trees can change sex – I am not making this up – is.
The BBC remains in thrall to this guff but at least, increasingly, people see through it. No one wants trans people’s lives to be miserable but fewer and fewer people will kowtow to abject nonsense. When famed British tennis coach Judy Murray says that, in sport, “those who are born male should only compete in male categories”, most Brits would agree.
Indeed, sport was surely one of the issues that Trump was able to utilize in his election campaign. Parents are not being “transphobic” in not wanting their girls to have to compete against biological males. To describe these parents as illiberal fascists is simply immoral.
Turning this into a partisan issue as the Democrats did has been disastrous for them. Gradually, though, the veil is lifting and when the trans mythology is examined, it evaporates.
No one can ever explain what gender identity is beyond “a feeling”, a feeling that seems to coincide absolutely with 1950s gender stereotypes of pink and blue, trucks and dolls, frills and beards.
In another important court case at the US Supreme Court (the US v Skrmetti) is a challenge to Tennessee’s law SB1, which prohibits gender medicalization of minors.
In this, more is being exposed. Chase Strangio, a trans man (that is, a biological woman born Kate Bachrach) and lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, has made a number of contradictory statements over whether biological sex is immutable. Strangio has also said that two-year-olds can know that they are trans.
Thankfully the Supreme Court justices referred to Dr Cass’s report, as well as research from Sweden, to break down some of this nonsense.
How has it come to this? Well, cult=thinking is a powerful thing. When she was addressing supporters outside the Skrmetti court, Annette Bening said that having “a transgender child has made me so much more interesting, so much more wise”. So that’s fantastic, isn’t it? Are you interesting enough as a parent without one?
Charlize Theron knew that one of the black children she adopted was trans at three, apparently, so clearly this is a must-have accessory. For Hollywood, the trans cult with the cute boy in a dress is the new Cool Thing.
The sheer creepiness of middle-aged activists who went through male puberty, now declaring themselves women but arguing to block the puberty of pre-teens never fails to shock me.
Each court case, though, brings us back to reality: that in the end sex cannot be changed. The medicalization and mutilation of children’s bodies is not a sign of being fashionable, it is a sign of mental and moral illness.
The cult is crumbling in the UK. How long will it take Trump to crumble it in America while there still is so much money to be made in harming children. No child is in the wrong body, but the fact that their bodies are put in the hands of some very wrong doctors is a terrible moral evil.
Suzanne Moore writes for various publications on the rights of biological women.