This argument is over.
Representatives of the Trans Industry have recently been forced to admit, grudgingly, that what they’re doing to gender-dysphoric children doesn’t live up to its advertising. The macabre bodily perversions these doctors inflict on confused kids – puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones, and mutilating surgeries, all of which would have made Dr. Mengele marvel – have always been marketed as vital to improving these kids’ mental health and saving them from all but inevitable suicide.
Turns out that’s not true. And Industry heavyweights have dealt the knockout blows.
Last month saw the belated and quiet publication of a U.S. taxpayer-funded study finding that blocking a child’s natural puberty doesn’t improve his or her mental health. Administering puberty blockers, the study found, “did not change [the patient’s] depression symptoms … significantly over 24 months.”
Who would have thought that suspending a young patient in an artificially prolonged childhood, while his or her peers naturally transform into taller, stronger, more developed adolescents, might not be the best thing for improving mental health? But the National Institutes of Health pumped almost $10 million into a study that confirmed a common-sense conclusion. Given that the study began during the Obama administration, it’s probably safe to assume that NIH expected, or hoped for, different results.
That is almost certainly true of the study’s lead author. Even mainstream media had to note the irony that Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy spearheaded research finding such an inconvenient (from her standpoint) fact. Olson-Kennedy is a Trans Industry superstar pediatrician whose defense of so-called “gender affirming” interventions has reached the point of parody (“if you [minor girls whose breasts are removed] want breasts at a later point in your life, you can go and get them”).
Imagine how deeply she must have wanted a different result. If this idealogue reported that puberty blockers have no appreciable effect on depression, that conclusion must have been unshakeable.
Media, both old and new, also focused on Olson-Kennedy’s admission that the study findings were suppressed for political reasons. She defended hiding the study from taxpayers who paid for it by arguing that the authors “did not want our work to be weaponized.” But even Olson-Kennedy and other practitioners who profit handsomely from grotesque experimentation on gender-confused minors are now conceding that what they’re doing doesn’t make the kids feel better.
Another damning admission, this one about suicide risk, came last December at the mother of all venues – the U. S. Supreme Court. During oral argument over a Tennessee statute protecting minors from “gender affirming” experimentation, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Chase Strangio torpedoed the Trans Industry’s omnipresent claim of looming suicides if kids don’t get these interventions.
Strangio’s co-counsel, U. S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, had earlier made vague reference to the “striking” “rates of suicide” among gender-confused youth - suggesting that the interventions prohibited by the Tennessee statute are lifesaving. But Justice Samuel Alito pinned Strangio down on what the data actually show.
When Alito asked about a British study finding no evidence of reduced suicides attributable to the interventions, Strangio admitted: “What I think that is referring to is there is no evidence in . . . the studies that this treatment reduces completed suicide. And the reason for that is completed suicide, thankfully and admittedly, is rare and we’re talking about a very small population of individuals with studies that don’t necessarily have completed suicides within them.”
To the extent the long-term effects of the medical interventions prohibited in Tennessee are known, it’s clear they can cause sterilization and are associated with strokes, cardiac disease, bone brittleness, cognitive decline, and a plethora of other complications. A civilized society would allow this to be done to a child only when it’s the only thing that can save his or her life. Thus the “suicide” mantra of Big Trans.
Multiple independent studies have refuted this claim. But now it’s even admitted by the spokesman for the Trans Industry at the Supreme Court that these procedures aren’t lifesaving after all. Given that the opposite claim has undergirded the Industry’s entire raison d’etre, Strangio’s admission brings down the house of cards. Game over.
These recent events show not only that “gender affirming” interventions don’t save lives, they don’t even help cheer kids up. There is literally no reasonable argument left for the Industry to make. The Mengele wannabees have had a good run, but maybe they should now take some time off and make sure their malpractice insurance is paid up. Dr. Olson-Kennedy can recommend a good lawyer.