“Stop worrying about what happens if we let kids transition. Worry about what happens if we don’t,” writes Emily St. James at Vox.
Parents have been receiving an onslaught of messages about what could go wrong if their child was to transition; they’ve rarely been asked to consider what could go wrong if they weren’t able to. We are running, in real time, an experiment on what happens when you don’t accept trans kids.
Before the transgender medical craze took off, most gender-distressed children desisted (i.e., grew out of such feelings) by the end of adolescence. As James Cantor, a Canadian psychologist and sexologist, explained: “Despite the differences in country, culture, decade, and follow-up length and method, all the studies have come to a remarkably similar conclusion: Only very few trans-kids still want to transition by the time they are adults.”
Puberty is a natural and spontaneously occurring process that billions of humans have experienced over thousands of years. The only “experiment” is disrupting it with drugs and surgeries in pursuit of the impossible.