The Cult Of The 'Trans Child' Is Doomed

Trump administration takes on the systematic fraud of 'pediatric gender medicine'

Jonathan Schweppe, Senior Policy Adviser at the Federal Trade Commission, opens last week’s workshop on the frauds that ‘gender medicine’ perpetrates on children

It was a casual conversation with a security guard during the first break, in the middle of the morning session, that convinced me we have reached the beginning of the end.

He was an average federal employee, a man with a teenage daughter who had experienced gender dysphoria. His estranged wife had encouraged the identification. His daughter is now an adult, no longer caught in the grip of the trend.

The story was relatively mild. His daughter never medicalized. Still, his experience was all too familiar. It would not stand out from the stories that PITT Parents tell. Yet this man had been busy, unaware of the larger story, and now he had just spent the morning discovering that he is not alone, and his story is not unique.

He had not understood how bad it could have been. He knew that ‘transitioning’ his own child would have b…