What You Might Be Overlooking When You Label a Child "Trans"

One little word can obscure so much

This author, who might have been a “trans kid” today.

It’s no small thing to call a child “trans.” This one word not only promotes confusion about the relationship between body and personality, but it can set a child down a pathway to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgery, sterility, and a complete derailment of the life they would have had.

This past February, a whistleblower from The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital, Jamie Reed, told The Free Press, “we are permanently harming the vulnerable patients in our care.”

A year before that, the French National Academy of Medicine also raised the alarm in a press release:

A great medical caution must be taken in children and adolescents, given the vulnerability, particularly psychological, of this population and the many undesirable effects, and even serious complications, that some of the available therapies can cause.

Kids are often labeled “trans” for many different reasons which are then compl…