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Better Late Than Never

Background: A pedestrian walks by the New York Times building in New York City, December 8, 2022. Inset: Former pediatric gender clinician Jamie Reed talks during an interview. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters; Triggernometry/Screenshot via YouTube)

For over a decade, clinicians have been recklessly experimenting with drugs and surgeries that interfere with the sexual development of gender-confused minors. This social and medical scandal has been happening in plain sight, and yet, until recently, publications such as the New York Times refused to acknowledge its consequences, exclusively publishing activist propaganda instead.

Thankfully — as I’ve noted before — those days are over. Consider, for instance, a recent piece by Times opinion columnist Pamela Paul, titled “As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.”

Paul writes:

Detransitioners say that only conservative media outlets seem interested in telling their stories, which has left them open to attacks as hapless tools of the right, something that frustrated and dismayed every detransitioner I interviewed. These are people who were once the trans-identified kids that so many organizations say they’re trying to protect — but when they change their minds, they say, they feel abandoned.

Madeleine Kearns is a staff writer at National Review and a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum.
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