Miles Yardley And The Detransition Wave

It's coming. How big will it be?

The transgender restroom selfie is a very important ritual

“They very quickly put me on hormones without really any discernment,” Miles Yardley tells The New York Post of his medical transition at the age of fifteen. “Looking back, if I were a doctor, I would think this is a much larger decision than the kid thinks that it is.” Indeed. None of us is the same person we were twelve years ago, so how on earth is a 15-year-old supposed to ‘know who they really are’ in the future, when they will be 27, like Yardley?

Yardley’s story resonates with everything detransitioners say about ‘gender medicine’ and its extortions. “His story is one that’s becoming all too familiar: A child with unconventional interests, swayed by strange ideologies on the Internet, is hustled by doctors into a life of medical dependency — only to find himself questioning everything years later,” Chadwick Moore reports. Imagine thousands of young people like Miles Yardley across America, because the real number is likel…