The topic of gender ideology and transgender care has become a bizarre one in the United States. For starters, there are two (2) genders, and you are free to argue with a wall about that. There has always been a history with people wanting to transition before though, this is not new. But the popularity of it has become new, as more young kids are undergoing gender-affirming care. In some cases, undergoing full sex change operations before ever hitting puberty.
That means irreparably changing a kid's gender to the other before they ever have a chance to think for themselves. Before they hit teenage years potentially, and before they ever get a chance to truly discover who they are. Doctors have inexplicably gone along with it, too. They give kids puberty blockers and perform sex changes on kids like it is some normal occurrence. Even when it is proven the puberty blockers have negative effects.
When you are 18 years old, you can do whatever you want as a legal adult. If you want a sex change at 18, then fine, have at it. But letting a doctor perform a sex change on a child before the age of 18 is objectively insane. Especially when you consider there is a study which found that over 80 percent of kids who experience 'gender identity issue' grew out of it by the time they were in their late teenage years.
Well, in order to keep the transgender trend alive, gender ideology doctors are withholding studies that show the negative effects of puberty blockers. One of the studies showed that they did nothing to improve mental health, and in fact, worsened it in multiple cases. Doctor Mary Bowden says this is scary.
"It is unfathomable there are doctors out there doing this...I have been a doctor for 20 years...when I was in training, this was never a thing," she says.
A 'trend' is the perfect word for it, too. Because oddly enough, the spike in the gender affirming care stories has been correlated with a rise in social media. It has become a new trendy thing to do for attention, basically. Sure, there are people out there who really want to transition, and that is fine. But for a large majority, it is nothing more than a social media feather in the cap.
There are plenty of interviews too, with people who have transitioned, where they have even said they regret doing the surgery. By the way, it is irreparable. Even if you do not do a full surgery, you have to stay on the hormone/testosterone supplements for life, or it destroys the immune system.
Yet, this insane idea of transitioning children has become normalized among the country. If you speak against it, you are labeled some homophobic bigot by liberals. When, in reality, you are just a person with common sense and logic.
Bad parenting holds some of the blame, as parents rush to the idea of having a transgender kid, for some weird reason. Sadly enough, for many it is just a status symbol and political statement. But much of the blame comes right back to the physicians themselves.
"Doctors need to be educating these parents instead of confirming, but they are not," says Dr. Bowden. "The buck stops with the doctor who is prescribing these medication and performing these surgeries."
This problem stems back to a variety of things. Social media might be one of the biggest culprits, with people glorifying child gender affirming care. But the roots go even deeper.
"These medical schools are indoctrinating students...so they come out thinking this is normal...when I was in school, this was complete quackery to talk about," Dr. Bowden says.
Whether we like it or not though, the idea has embedded itself in the American culture, and medical system. Insanity at its highest form.
To fix it, we can only begin to chip away at de-normalizing it. But Dr. Bowden adds that if Kamla Harris wins, the battle at breaking down the normalization will get much harder.