Britain’s only transgender-youth clinic closed its doors after an independent review exposed serious safety concerns. Yet Boston’s Children’s Hospital — along with countless others — still aggressively advocates medicalized gender transitions for minors. “Why?” Rich Lowry asks, given that Europe is usually “at the vanguard of cultural insanity, with the U.S. only catching up later.”
Europe’s cultural insanity occurs mostly in the realm of individual rights. In recent years, freedom of speech and freedom of religion have been increasingly threatened by efforts to outlaw “hate.” During the pandemic, we saw how easily freedom of movement and freedom of assembly were curtailed during Covid lockdowns. These injustices exist in health care; everything from hospital workers being forced to be involved in abortion services, despite their conscientious objections, to the usurpation of parental rights as in the case of the terminally ill infant, Charlie Gard.
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