Thing That Never Happens Has Happened Thousands Of Times In America
We have all been gaslit while they hurt the kids
A new database shows that 13,994 minors across the United States were medicalized for “gender dysphoria” over four years, and thousands of them received “gender affirming” surgeries.
“Stop the Harm,” a new initiative from the clinician-members of Do No Harm, greatly undercounts the population of American minors receiving such “treatments.” Users can choose their own state to find out how many insurance claims the research team has found, the amounts, and the facilities which provided the services.
Which is weird, because everyone who has ever voiced wrongthink about the child-sterilizing cult in our medical-industrial complex has been assured for years that this sort of thing never, ever happens. This thing that “never happens” has in fact happened thousands of times in recent years.
“The practice of sex ‘change’ surgery in minors is not nearly as rare as its advocates have said,” Dr. Leor Sapir tells Ben Ryan. Another understatement. We have all been gaslit by activists across the media landscape peddling harmful patent medicine woo-woo for kids.
The conservative research approach adopted by Do No Harm “does not include patients covered by Kaiser Health Plans, the Veterans Association [sic], charity payments, or self-pay” because “these forms of payment are not publicly reported or accessible,” reports the New York Post.
“We’ve really been meticulous in trying to make sure that the data are as clear as possible and are as accurate as possible,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, the chairman of Do No Harm, said in a press conference about the database.
“If anything, we’re showing the lower limits of what’s going on… to be certain that we’re not overstating it one iota. We’re probably and almost certainly understating the nature of the problem.”
Few real surprises await the website user who has paid attention to this issue for any length of time. California, land of fads and cults, is the epicenter of the child sex lobotomy craze. More than 2,000 minor “patients” billed over $28 million for “services” in just this limited data set.
Nearly 700 “patients” in Massachusetts also resulted in $10 million of billing. No one knows just how much was paid out, but the claims are enough to get a sense of scale. This thing that never happens somehow happened to become a big business while it was supposedly never happening.
Worse, it is not even happening in the venues where it is supposed to happen. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) was the number one provider, with Connecticut Children’s Medical Center being number two. However, Ryan notes that “only about 10 percent of claims for pediatric gender-transition treatment and surgeries are coming from children’s hospitals, Do Not Harm found. The vast majority of care is provided by non-pediatric clinics or hospitals.”
The line between child and adult has been queered into a blur. Pre-verbal children “know themselves” and their every fantasy must be believed, for they must lead us. Children need pronoun indoctrination and esoteric disembodiment to discover their true selves, so they can lead us. Children need “sex change” operations before they are old enough to have sex, so they can lead us.
It stands to reason that the sex lobotomy cult would prefer to sacrifice the bodies of children in the temples of adult medicine. That makes perfect sense.
Blue electoral maps are consistent with persistent “trans identification.” It is a First World problem. “Youth in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin all exceeded $1 million in spending” on child sex lobotomies, according to the Post.
Of course, the “gender journey” is also customized. Not every child on puberty blockers and/or hormones will persist in their transgender ideation. But surgical outcomes do seem very common.
“Irreversible surgery was disproportionately performed in several states,” the Post reports. “1,359 minors in California received surgical intervention, as did 357 in Oregon, 330 in Washington, 316 in Pennsylvania, and 300 in Massachusetts.” Again, this is an undercount, and it is far more than the zero we were repeatedly assured was the real number.
History records that the pediatric transition craze began from the rationalization that because transition “medicine” outcomes in adults were so bad, adult suicidality and depression could be improved by starting earlier in life. On this basis, a deeply-flawed “Dutch protocol” came across the Atlantic with Dr. Norman Spack, who “salivated” (his own word) at the idea of performing sex lobotomies on minor children.
This is also the origin-point of the suicide-prevention myth. Parents are convinced that unless their children receive sex lobotomies as early as possible, they will inevitably take their own lives, because outcomes were so poor in the adult population that the activists came for their kids in desperation.
Surely if they started the harm at ever-young ages, using a wider variety of approaches, surely then the future adult’s satisfaction with their cosmetic results would justify everything? Surely.
They were wrong. They were monsters. Rather than rub it in, here lies the way out, the “golden bridge” for anyone still riding the trans train. We were lied to. We can show the people still saying this doesn’t happen that they were lied to, giving them a psychological path to abandon the liars, to claim the victimhood of being lied to, and adopt a new position.
That will be a hard move for many of us who resent the years they spent gaslighting us about the child sex lobotomy cult, but a little magnanimity can go a long way, now. We are no longer in the resistance phase of gender critics: we are in the persuasion phase of sexed realism, and our evidence base grows in quality all the time.
The gatekeepers at The Washington Post's comment section recently silenced me by deleting my comment to the effect that Planned Parenthood is under criticism for being too lax in prescribing testosterone to females. It turns out the truth doesn't hurt if it is suppressed.
Meanwhile, as someone who listens to podcasts on and off for most of the day, I find myself being barraged by Planned Parenthood ads that feed the left's moral panic about an assault on the rights of "LGBTQ" people in general and on gender-affirming medical care in particular. (I'd love to hear one of those middle-aged male cable news pundits explain just exactly what "queer rights" would be.) It's time to start sending mystery shoppers into Planned Parenthood facilities to document the due diligence or lack thereof before they prescribe the coveted "T" to gender-confused teen girls and young women. Note, though, that such a project should be done according to advice from qualified legal counsel and within an organizational structure rather than as freelancing venture.
Sex realists have been playing catch-up from the very beginning in this highly asymmetrical battle against the harmful excesses of applied gender identity ideology.