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.
Because they haven’t been used for long enough. Usually if you are going to drug thousands of American children there is some interest in the long-term effects before steaming ahead and handing out such drugs out like candy.
What we do know is that among children given these drugs there seem to be an uncommonly high number of cases of osteoporosis and early-onset cancers. Oh — and the children given these “puberty-blockers” are also highly likely to be made infertile by them. The criminal so-called “medical professionals,” pharmaceutical companies and profiteering insurance companies who package all this up and sell it to children and their parents pretend that it’s easy.
They pretend that you can “delay” puberty with zero consequences.
They pretend you can come off these drugs and go straight back to normal. But since everyone is meant to “affirm” most kids stick on the drugs.
And I can tell you from people I have spoken to who’ve gone through this that there are plenty of consequences. Many of the young men end up with breast tissue. They have also been chemically castrated. Many were simply gay.
Chemically castrating gay men used to be seen as a torture from the intolerant past. Today it is seen as progressive and tolerant.
And that is before you even get onto “gender-affirming surgery.”
Something which Arkansas also tried to ban and which has now been un-banned. Again, it sounds so innocent doesn’t it? As though we should all take it as fact that people who are unhappy in their bodies were born in the wrong bodies and that with a little nip of the knife all will be well.
Well it won’t. If you are a girl being given “gender-affirming surgery” you will start by being given a “medically necessary” double-mastectomy.
Any woman who has actually had to go through that surgery for serious health reasons will know it is not the fun little procedure the trans lobby call “top surgery.” But it is positively breezy compared to the equally cutesy-named “bottom surgery.”
I’m sorry for what follows, but people have to know this.
For a girl “bottom surgery” will consist of flaying a young girl’s leg or arm to the veins, leaving her with an ugly, unhealable wound on her body while attempting to make something approximating a penis out of it. This skin graft will often not take. When it does the result will neither resemble nor operate like a penis.
That’s just the girls. For the boys “gender-affirming bottom surgery” actually means their penis will be cut in half, flayed and partially inverted into their body. This attempt at creating a vagina will cause complications for life. The wound will keep trying to heal up. Urination will almost never be straightforward. Infections will be commonplace, as will painful internal hair growth.
None of this is about a one-off visit to the hospital. Every child put through “gender-affirming surgery” will be in and out of hospital for the rest of their life. They will have an ongoing relationship with multiple doctors to continue doing the most basic things in life.
I’m sorry to have to relate all these details. But they are important. Because just look at how the lies have embedded in this country. Even in the media and political world’s language around this new industry.
Just this week the New York Times reported on the various state-bans with the heading “The Anti-Trans Push in America.”
It went on to describe various of the state bans as affecting “medical care for youth,” “puberty blockers and surgeries for young people” and “blocking treatments as well as surgeries, for transgender minors.”
Other media — including “conservative” media — now routinely use similar language.
So let me take up some language — that of the White House. What I have described above is going on across this country and it is deeply, deeply immoral.
If Karine Jean-Pierre is right and “our kids belong to all of us” then we are encouraging and allowing child abuse. On a nationwide, historic, shameful, industrial scale.
It isn’t the bans that are the problem. It is the fact that this cutesy-titled butchery was ever allowed in the first place.
The judges should not be smacking down the states. They should be prosecuting the doctors, pharmaceutical and insurance companies who are creating such lifelong misery for America’s youth for their cynically self-enriching ends.