“What should be a medical and psychological issue has been morphed into a political one,” she added. “It’s a mess.”
Furthermore, the outlet also admitted that kids are “a new and growing group of patients” in the transgender department.
While transgender adults, who have “had longstanding and deep-seated gender dysphoria” their entire lives, are happy with their transitions, this growing group of children that are going to clinics seeking sex changes is a new phenomenon, clinicians say.
Laura Edwards-Leeper, the founding psychologist of the first pediatric gender clinic in the United States, told
the New York Times
that when she started her practice in 2007, most of her patients had suffered with gender dysphoria their entire lives, and that she felt a sex change made sense for almost all of them.
“But that is just not the case anymore,” Edwards-Leeper said. “The population has changed drastically.”
Now, most of her patients have no history of childhood gender dysphoria, she noted.
“The population has changed drastically,” the psychologist said.” As far as I can tell, there are no professional organizations who are stepping in to regulate what’s going on.”
Meanwhile, there is an uptick in what are known as “detransitioners,” who say that only conservative media outlets seem interested in telling their stories. They say that when they change their minds, they feel abandoned.
“I was always a liberal Democrat. Now I feel politically homeless,” one woman whose son changed his mind after coming out as trans and starting hormone therapy said.
The New York Times
also acknowledged the menacing question that trans activists always ask parents of children who have discovered transgender propaganda, which is, “Do you want a dead son or a living daughter?”
After Kathleen’s 15-year-old son abruptly told his parents he was trans, the doctor who was going to assess if the teenager had A.D.H.D. instead referred him to someone who specialized in both A.D.H.D. and “gender,” the outlet reported.
The mother told
the New York Times
that she had assumed the specialist would conduct some type of evaluation or assessment, but it didn’t happen. Instead, the meeting was short and kicked off on a shocking note.
“In front of my son, the therapist said, ‘Do you want a dead son or a live daughter?’” Kathleen said.
Parents are constantly warned that taking any path other than transitioning their child will mean putting their kid at risk for suicide. Parents are told that they will effectively kill their own children if they do not let them get a sex change.
Activists who advocate for letting kids undergo transgender-related medical procedures cite studies saying there is a connection between those procedures and a lower risk of suicide.
“But those studies were found to have methodological flaws or have been deemed not entirely conclusive,”
the New York Times
reported.
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