These providers know exactly what they're doing and how they're harming these adolescents because then they talk about "the right to regret," saying these teenagers have the "right" to make bad decisions, enabled by doctors and therapist, that they will later regret.
Do those zealous trans allies realize that many teen girls and young women crave "T" for its mood-enhancing properties? One might call it a recreational drug, except there's nothing recreational about messing with one's body chemistry and organ functions in a Frankenstein-like quest to do the impossible and change sexes.
This scenario reminds me of how incredibly naive my friends and I were when we were teenagers in the 1960s. Growing up in New York City, we had access to every illegal drug cooked up in somebody's kitchen. Despite the ridiculous amount of pot, pills and hallucinogens my friends and I ingested every day, including inside the school building (no lie), somehow I managed to obtain a high school diploma. But it took another ten years before the executive function in my frontal cortex came online and I put the drugs away and never touched them again.
So I understand why kids are attracted to the siren song of trans, and I have a feeling that if I were a child now, I'd be waving the LGBTQXYZ flag and standing on line for my dose of testosterone, under the guidance and encouragement of teachers, school nurses, celebrities, politicians, and medical experts...er, I mean ghouls...in white coats. I'd be trying on the 72 genders, many of which I would invent myself and compete for the most interesting one. When T was offered to me, I'd give it a shot, literally. Why not? What do I have to lose? My breasts, maybe? but that's no big deal. I'm a child, I'm smarter than my parents, and I know absolutely nothing. Kids make the best customers! Shooting fish in a barrel is what it is.
What strikes me is that this form of rebellion is just a new way for teens to test the boundaries of their parents' love and commitment to them, but in a way that has been marketed to the teens as "safer" than traditional substance abuse.
THIS is what those credulous cishet trans allies who are so terribly anguished about how mean we're being to their precious "trans kids" need to hear. They think that the youth who want to change sex (LOL) are squared away and that transitioning is just another rite of passage like having wisdom teeth removed or getting a driver's license. They have no idea about the subculture that has evolved around so-called gender expression, or how much time and energy those lost kids devote to their dead-end obsession.
I'm going to file this away so I can send it to public figures who get so sanctimonious about the need to "protect trans people." The fact is that these kids need to be protected from themselves and from out-of-touch trans allies like The Bulwark's Tim Miller.
The adults in the room are no longer creating a safe area for the kids to do their rebelling within, but instead opening up every gate and saying “it’s your right!”.
One of the most horrifying elements is the complete lack of long term follow-up and data gathering…it is experimentation without true consent and without long term assessment
very few are told that these drugs and procedures used in this manner are experimental and they are the guinea pigs)…
"Girls—some of them barely old enough to drive—are scoring testosterone like it’s contraband, swiping it from friends’ prescriptions or begging it off compliant docs. They’re not sneaking beers or crashing cars. No. They’re injecting hormones, turning their bodies into DIY science projects."
"This isn’t fringe—it’s the new normal, egged on by a medical establishment that has swapped caution for cheerleading. Where adolescent medicine once quaintly preached “first, do no harm,” it’s now doling out needles and blockers like candy, all under the banner of identity goals and autonomy."
"No one’s tracking the fallout. Clinics don’t log regret rates, don’t follow up when the “experiment” sours. They’re too busy slapping rainbow stickers on their doors to notice the kids limping back—girls who thought T would improve them, only to find it broke them instead. This isn’t medicine; it’s malpractice with a trendy hashtag."
These providers know exactly what they're doing and how they're harming these adolescents because then they talk about "the right to regret," saying these teenagers have the "right" to make bad decisions, enabled by doctors and therapist, that they will later regret.
Do those zealous trans allies realize that many teen girls and young women crave "T" for its mood-enhancing properties? One might call it a recreational drug, except there's nothing recreational about messing with one's body chemistry and organ functions in a Frankenstein-like quest to do the impossible and change sexes.
This scenario reminds me of how incredibly naive my friends and I were when we were teenagers in the 1960s. Growing up in New York City, we had access to every illegal drug cooked up in somebody's kitchen. Despite the ridiculous amount of pot, pills and hallucinogens my friends and I ingested every day, including inside the school building (no lie), somehow I managed to obtain a high school diploma. But it took another ten years before the executive function in my frontal cortex came online and I put the drugs away and never touched them again.
So I understand why kids are attracted to the siren song of trans, and I have a feeling that if I were a child now, I'd be waving the LGBTQXYZ flag and standing on line for my dose of testosterone, under the guidance and encouragement of teachers, school nurses, celebrities, politicians, and medical experts...er, I mean ghouls...in white coats. I'd be trying on the 72 genders, many of which I would invent myself and compete for the most interesting one. When T was offered to me, I'd give it a shot, literally. Why not? What do I have to lose? My breasts, maybe? but that's no big deal. I'm a child, I'm smarter than my parents, and I know absolutely nothing. Kids make the best customers! Shooting fish in a barrel is what it is.
Now the Scientific American publishes articles like this one: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-why-human-sex-is-not-binary/ so we know it must be true.
100%. Taking the drugs offers all the kicks, plus the added frisson of pinning your parents to the wall.
What strikes me is that this form of rebellion is just a new way for teens to test the boundaries of their parents' love and commitment to them, but in a way that has been marketed to the teens as "safer" than traditional substance abuse.
THIS is what those credulous cishet trans allies who are so terribly anguished about how mean we're being to their precious "trans kids" need to hear. They think that the youth who want to change sex (LOL) are squared away and that transitioning is just another rite of passage like having wisdom teeth removed or getting a driver's license. They have no idea about the subculture that has evolved around so-called gender expression, or how much time and energy those lost kids devote to their dead-end obsession.
I'm going to file this away so I can send it to public figures who get so sanctimonious about the need to "protect trans people." The fact is that these kids need to be protected from themselves and from out-of-touch trans allies like The Bulwark's Tim Miller.
Yes!
The adults in the room are no longer creating a safe area for the kids to do their rebelling within, but instead opening up every gate and saying “it’s your right!”.
One of the most horrifying elements is the complete lack of long term follow-up and data gathering…it is experimentation without true consent and without long term assessment
very few are told that these drugs and procedures used in this manner are experimental and they are the guinea pigs)…
Yes, you captured what is going on well.
"Girls—some of them barely old enough to drive—are scoring testosterone like it’s contraband, swiping it from friends’ prescriptions or begging it off compliant docs. They’re not sneaking beers or crashing cars. No. They’re injecting hormones, turning their bodies into DIY science projects."
"This isn’t fringe—it’s the new normal, egged on by a medical establishment that has swapped caution for cheerleading. Where adolescent medicine once quaintly preached “first, do no harm,” it’s now doling out needles and blockers like candy, all under the banner of identity goals and autonomy."
"No one’s tracking the fallout. Clinics don’t log regret rates, don’t follow up when the “experiment” sours. They’re too busy slapping rainbow stickers on their doors to notice the kids limping back—girls who thought T would improve them, only to find it broke them instead. This isn’t medicine; it’s malpractice with a trendy hashtag."
Brilliant. I have restacked.