‘Gender-affirming surgery’ puts a feel-good phrase on child butchery

[Kamaji]

‘Gender-affirming surgery’ puts a feel-good phrase on child butchery

By Douglas Murray
June 22, 2023

A decision by a Federal judge in Arkansas isn’t always a matter of great importance. But this week one was. The judge in question struck down Arkansas’ ban on “gender-affirming care” for minors.

Arkansas was the first state to pass such a ban, although 18 states have passed similar laws, including Alabama, Florida, Oklahoma and Texas. All have been criticized by the White House. President Biden has called such bans “outrageous” and “immoral.”

White House Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre added: “These are our kids. They belong to all of us.”

Which is an interesting formulation. Until the day before yesterday, it was believed that children belong to their parents. Who knew that American parents are in a joint custody arrangement with the White House?

Perhaps you can drop them off there after school whenever you’re in the area?

But what all this points to is not a normal political disagreement. It gets to the root of one of the most wicked things going on in our day. Something that future generations will look back on with amazement and horror. I guarantee that within even just a few years people will say of this era “What were they thinking?”

Let’s start with that innocent-sounding phrase “gender-affirming care.” It sounds so nice doesn’t it? Who doesn’t want to “affirm” people? Especially minors.

I’ll tell you who. Any responsible adult.

Because let’s remind ourselves what this “gender-affirming care” actually consists of. It consists of telling confused and often deeply unhappy children that their problems can all be sorted out if they decide that they were born in the wrong body and that this is fixable.

How is it fixable? First by easy little things like “puberty blockers” and “hormonal treatment.”

Do people realize what these things — also designed to sound simple and innocuous — actually are? They are drugs whose long-term effects we have almost no studies on.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/22/gender-affirming-surgery-puts-a-feel-good-phrase-on-child-butchery/

[Free Vulcan]

Science, facts and reality don't need to be 'affirmed'. They just are.

[Kamaji]

Science, facts and reality don't need to be 'affirmed'. They just are.

The original basis - if one can call it that - for the false ideology of "affirming" gender disphoria can from the Dutch who, more or less, said that for an adult male with gender disphoria, it was easier and cheaper to simply play along with his mental illness and "affirm" that he was really a she stuck in a he's body, rather than trying to actually treat the underlying mental illness.

The Dutch then did some other so-called "studies" that are the essential foundation for this pack of lies.

Those studies, however, would be thrown out today if they were published as being unserious and unscientific.

A critique of those studies is here:  https://segm.org/Dutch-studies-critically-flawed