When it first became apparent that children and adolescents were identifying as the opposite sex in unprecedented numbers — many chose to look the other way. Even some conservatives preferred not to speak out. They worried about being accused of attacking a vulnerable group. They also worried about tending to another unwinnable culture-war front, perhaps “the next gay marriage.”
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Just in the last few weeks, I’ve covered the U.K. National Health Service’s absurd guidelines that hormonally induced lactation in trans-identifying men is equivalent in nutritional value to “breastmilk”; the trans activists who staged a political spectacle at a funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York; and the individuals under the “trans umbrella” who have become a liability to their cause.
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