Children are being coerced into surgically destroying themselves when they would otherwise move on from their angsty LGBT phases.
A long-term study done in the Netherlands showed that over time, children grow out of their gender confusion. The study was conducted over 25 years using 2,772 11-year-olds from the general population. They were asked periodically to respond to the statement, “I wish to be the opposite sex.”
At the start of the study, 11% of the subjects reported having gender non-contentedness. By the end, at age 26, only 4% of them did. The trends showed that 78% of the subjects retained no gender-contentedness throughout the study, 19% decreased in gender non-contentedness, and 2% increased. The conductors of the survey said, “gender non-contentedness is most common around the age of 11 and that the prevalence decreases with age.”
They also kept track of other feelings over time to see if there were any correlations, and they found that “individuals with increasing or decreasing gender non-contentedness trajectories had lower global self-worth, more behavioral and emotional problems, and more often had a homosexual or bisexual orientation compared to individuals without gender non-contentedness.”
One would think this sort of information would deter respectable physicians and politicians from promoting gender ideology at all levels of society, but it will not. Jon Schweppe, policy director for the American Principles Project, told the Washington Examiner, “The activists just dismiss these studies even though it’s been known for a while that the desistance rate is pretty high for kids dealing with gender dysphoria.”
“It absolutely should have an impact on our public policy — we shouldn’t be subjecting kids to permanent, life-altering procedures, and that’s especially true if there’s evidence that many of these kids can grow up to have normal lives,” Schweppe said. “The stories of all these detransitioners should serve as a warning that what we are doing to these kids is monstrous and medical malpractice.”
Of course, these activists will disregard this and all other studies; it discredits their cherished worldview, the byproduct of a hyper-sexualized interpretation of the self. Detransitioners like Chloe Cole are dismissed as uncredited traitors to the transgender cult.
The missionary work of LGBT activists has been largely successful. A recent study found a connection between culture and brain adaptation to it within the context of transsexualism. Young people are especially vulnerable to the peer pressure of the cultures around them.
25% of all LGBT students live in the seven states that now require LGBT education in their curriculums. Republican states that avoid such content are being infected regardless. Indiana and Utah have seen some of the greatest increases in gender dysphoria diagnoses by 247% and 193%, respectively. The percentage of high school students now identifying as heterosexual has dropped to a shocking 74.2%.
A nationwide analysis by Reuters found that there has been a dramatic spike in children ages 6-17 being diagnosed with gender dysphoria, initiating puberty blocker treatment, and initiating hormone treatment.
Consequently, the mental health of children has greatly increased. The number of minors ages 6 to 17 who were diagnosed with either anxiety or depression was 5.4% in 2003, 8% in 2007, and 8.4% in 2011. By 2019, before the COVID-19 lockdowns began, 10% of minors ages 3 to 17 were diagnosed with anxiety, and 37% of high schoolers reported feeling sad or hopeless.
For LGBT youth, it is far worse. They are the most prone to suicide. A study by the Trevor Project confirmed that 41% of LGBT youth have seriously considered attempting suicide, while 14% did attempt suicide.
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These gender confusion activists do not care about children, or about LGBT people for that matter. They simply view them as a means to accrue social status and power no matter the cost.
Just let the children be children. Those who really care about them will condemn the harmful surgeries and hostile education being pushed onto them.
Parker Miller is a 2024 Washington Examiner Winter Fellow.