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The "Transgender Kid" Myth Continues to Unravel
Earlier this month, a UK court issued a landmark ruling in favor of Kiera Bell, now 23, who sued Tavistock gender clinic for causing permanent harm by prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to her when she was in her teens. The court ruled that minors under the age of 16 are not able to consent to puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones because they are not able to fully consider the life-long effects. As a result of the ruling, the clinic has stopped referrals for children under the age of 16.
Shortly after the Tavistock ruling, a study was released showing that all but one of the children who received puberty blockers at Tavistock in 2011 went on to receive cross-sex hormones. Although Tavistock has insisted that there is no link between the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, and the transgender movement claims that puberty blockers are nothing but a “pause” button, but the evidence tells a different story.
The vast majority of children who experience gender dysphoria will outgrow it and become comfortable with their body by the time they reach adulthood if they do not undergo social or medical “transition.” In contrast, 43 of the 44 children who were put on puberty blockers at Tavistock in 2011 went on to receive cross-sex hormones. “Far from being “neutral,” the psychosocial effects seem closer to radical,” writes Abigail Shrier. “Suppression of normal bone density development and greater risk of osteoporosis, loss of sexual function, interference with brain development, and possibly suppressing peak IQ are all risks puberty blockers carry.”
Shrier also notes,
[Studies] show is that nearly all adolescents who identify as transgender and are put on puberty blockers go on to take cross-sex hormones in adulthood. Of course, that does not prove that these adolescents “knew who they were”; at most, it proves that if you medically halt a kid’s puberty so that they do not obtain secondary sex characteristics, while also socially affirming their new gender identity, that adolescent will be less likely to later reverse course.
Halting the natural development that happens during puberty is not safe or neutral. It puts kids on course for cross-sex hormones and life-long medical complications. Staff at Tavistock raised concerns about what was going on at the clinic 15 years ago. Back in 2005, the clinic had tens of clients per year and their youngest clients were 15. In the years since then, things have only become more lax, serving thousands of clients per year, some as young as nine years old. Within the past five years, the clinic saw a 400% increase in referrals. Sadly, the clinic was not held responsible prior to Bell’s lawsuit. (. . . CONTINUE READING)
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Images of Babies in the Womb are Powerful - That's Why the Abortion Industry Can't Stand Them
In a recent column for Vice, a pro-abortion writer complained that the pro-life movement’s use of ultrasound imagery has “hijacked” and “politicized” abortion. “Today, feminist movements across the world are going up against imagery that associates abortions with baby-killing,” writes Amarans Eggeraat, noting that the abortion movement has yet to find an equally powerful image to support their movement. The abortion industry is not “associated” with baby-killing because of the imagery used by the pro-life movement; the abortion industry kills babies. Ultrasound technology makes it impossible to argue that abortion is nothing more than the removal of a “blob of tissue.” By giving us a glimpse into the womb, it draws attention to the horror of abortion. Eggeraat is right that the abortion industry has never found an equally compelling image. This is not because the pro-life movement is being “unfair,” but because there is no image and no argument that justifies intentionally taking the life of an innocent child.
It has been said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and this has proven true when it comes to abortion. Images of babies in the womb are a stunning, silent rebuke of the abortion industry, forcing us to see the devastating loss of human life that has taken place in the US since Roe v. Wade. The tragic reality is that our society tolerates and even celebrates the brutal murder of unborn children.
Eggeraat complains that images of unborn babies are misleading, showing babies at a later stage in development than when most abortions occur. But one of the most famous images of abortion, the “precious feet” photograph shows a baby who was aborted at just ten weeks. A child in the womb does not simply look like a tiny unborn child, as Eggeraat claims. He or she is a tiny unborn child. If we are unmoved by images of unborn children who are at risk of being aborted, then we have lost our humanity. (. . . CONTINUE READING)
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