The Most Important Article You'll Read This Year
'I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids...' from The Free Press
The issue of “gender affirming healthcare” for children (or sex change procedures for minors… niether term is comprehensive or precise but I think the second is more appropriate) has been a fast-moving medical and ethical catastrophe-in-waiting. It has accelerated along with other mental health issues in our society (teen anxiety, juvenile suicide, etc.). I believe that at some point in the coming years the people who have advocated for general and even universal “affirmation” (which usually includes drastic medication protocols and often surgery) of “queer and trans” youth will have to answer for their errors. They may credibly say they were misinformed but will not be able to say the information wasn’t available.
I don’t consider myself an especially vindictive person but I can summon no empathy for providers and activists who are blinded by money and ideology to risk and harm the well-being of children.
This article raises issues that are now impossible to dismiss:
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids...
I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.
There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.
By Jamie Reed
February 9, 2023