The New York Times published an article warning of the potential dangers for children receiving so-called “gender-affirming care.” The article mentions several people who have reversed their gender transition after realizing that puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery are not the panacea that doctors and transgender activists touted.
The New York Times publishes an opinion piece “When I was a kid, I thought they were transgender. They’re not transgender anymore,” author Pamela Paul wrote Friday. What makes this article stand out from previous NYT articles is that it reaches far different conclusions about children transitioning using unproven procedures and drugs that can have hidden, life-altering consequences. It’s because I’m here.
The editorial said transgender activists promote “ideological extremism” that demonizes opposition to children undergoing potentially destructive treatment to pursue their gender orientation. .
“Clinicians are expected to affirm a young person’s assertion of their gender identity and provide treatment before or without exploring other possible causes of distress,” Paul said. Ta.
“Many of those who think a more cautious approach is needed, including well-meaning liberal parents and doctors, as well as people who have undergone gender reassignment and later regret the procedure, have been attacked as anti-trans and silenced their concerns. “I’m being blackmailed into doing this,” Paul continued.
The article cites recent events. study A paper published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that 39% of young detransitioners held “the belief that gender dysphoria is a symptom of other problems.”
The study also found that 55% “believed they had received an inadequate medical or psychological evaluation before transitioning.”
Paul says, “Parents are regularly warned that pursuing any path other than consenting to their child’s self-declared gender identity will put gender dysphoric young people at risk of suicide, but this… “It feels like emotional blackmail to many people.”
A parent of a gender-confused child tells Paul about meeting with a specialist, and the specialist says, “In front of my son, the therapist asked him, “Do you want a dead son or a living daughter?” “I said,” he is said to have said.
February 2021 investigation A paper published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society concluded that “no conclusions can be drawn regarding the death by suicide.”
Published by the Wall Street Journal article The paper cites 21 clinicians and researchers from nine countries who found that “there is no reliable evidence to suggest that hormone transition is an effective suicide prevention strategy.”
the study A 2021 Australian Journal of Psychology paper found that “children with gender dysphoria have a higher prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders, trauma, eating disorders and autism spectrum disorders. , often experience a variety of psychiatric comorbidities, including suicidal tendencies and self-harm. Consider psychiatric comorbidities when prioritizing and sequencing treatment for children with gender dysphoria. It is extremely important to do so.”
The New York Times interviewed multiple people who overcame gender-focused treatment as children, only to detransition after growing up.
Grace Powell, who started taking cross-sex hormones and underwent a double mastectomy during her senior year of high school to transition, told the Times: One Heal it, One What to do if this is your problem, and this intention I will help. “
Powell, 23, said no medical professional asked her “the reason behind her gender dysphoria or depression” or about any past trauma she suffered during her medical or surgical transition. She revealed that Powell had sexually abused her during her childhood.
“The transition didn’t make me feel any better, it just made me feel even more wrong about what I felt was wrong,” Powell admitted.
“I was hoping everything would change, but I was just me, my voice a little deeper,” Powell confessed. “It took me two years to de-transition and start living as Grace again.
An article in the left-leaning New York Times states, “In the words of one detransitioning man who is currently in a same-sex relationship, “I’m a gay man who is excited about looking like a woman, ‘I was dating a lesbian who was excited about looking like a guy.’ If that’s not conversion therapy, I don’t know what is.”
The person added that transitioning to men would allow her to pursue relationships with women without being criticized as a lesbian “dyke” or “not a real girl.”
Paul Garcia-Ryan, a 32-year-old gay psychotherapist who transitioned at age 30, says, “When professionals affirm a young person’s gender identity, what they are doing is “We are performing psychological intervention that narrows our senses.” We think of ourselves and close off the option of thinking about what is possible for us. ”
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