The final line of the Eagle's song "Hotel California" accurately describes the current state of LGBTQ so-called "rights," especially gender affirmation clinics: "you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
Last week, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden unveiled his campaign commitments on these issues, and included everything on the sexual left's Christmas list: rollbacks of religious liberty protections, the passage of the so-called Equality Act, adding a "third gender" option on government forms, and of course, supporting a total ban on so-called "conversion therapy."
That pejorative term no longer applies, by the way, to things like "shock therapy." Anyone who counsels or psychologically treats someone with unwanted same-sex attraction or gender dysphoria, to help them bring their feelings in line with their body, is accused of conversion therapy.
The newly invented standards of care now call for so-called gender "affirming" therapy, which instead tries to bring the body in line with feelings, often through lifelong doses of cross-sex hormones and mutilating "sex-change" operations.
The former vice-president's campaign promises to closely resemble new legislation in Canada that would ban all non-affirming forms of therapy for LGBTQ patients. In fact, Canada's measure is severe, not only banning but criminalizing so-called "conversion therapy," threatening jail time for professionals who offer it, or even, apparently, parents who might seek it for their children.
Such a ban is justified by the medically and ethically deficient things done in the name of helping those with unwanted attractions or dysphoria, supporters say. But largely ignored is the growing evidence that so-called "affirming" therapies often fail to help people and even can leave them worse off.
For example, as we mentioned recently on another BreakPoint commentary, a movement of hundreds of young people has emerged in Great Britain, who are "de-transitioning" after coming to regret their gender switch. One woman is suing the British National Health Service for the decision to so quickly place her on puberty-blocking drugs, at age 16, after a "gender-affirming" clinic proclaimed she was a boy.
Now in her early 20s, the woman says that the NHS gender clinic didn't do enough to counsel her away from gender transition or inform her of the real consequences. "I was allowed to run with this idea that I had, almost like a fantasy, as a teenager…and it has affected me in the long run as an adult."
Her lawyers are arguing something that should be obvious to us all: Children can't fully understand the impact cross-sex hormones will have on their future, especially in areas like fertility. Yet in the U.K. and increasingly in North America, puberty-blocking drugs have become standard treatment for children with gender dysphoria—sometimes, according to the BBC, as young as age twelve. |
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