Autistic Children Pushed to Become Transgender? By Wesley J. Smith ????!!!
The Daily Mail has a shocking story from the UK. A whistleblowing teacher claims that vulnerable autistic children are being persuaded that they are gender dysphoric.
An astonishing 17 pupils at a single British school are in the process of changing gender, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Most of the youngsters undergoing the transformation are autistic, according to a teacher there, who said vulnerable children with mental health problems were being ‘tricked’ into believing they are the wrong sex.
The whistleblower says few of the transgender children are suffering from gender dysphoria – the medical term for someone who feels they were born in the wrong body – but are just easily influenced, latching on to the mistaken belief they are the wrong sex as a way of coping with the problems caused by autism.
This isn’t the only indication that something may be amiss:
The Mail on Sunday revealed that a third of youngsters referred to the NHS’s only gender identity clinic for children showed ‘moderate to severe autistic traits’.
It means that 150 autistic teenagers were given puberty blocker drugs which stop the body maturing.
What are the odds of that?
As to the larger question: Many, but certainly not all, pediatric medical associations support blocking puberty in kids with gender dysphoria to prevent the development of secondary sex characteristics. It’s hard to debate or seriously question this approach when those opposed are castigated with the usual epithets and ad hominem denigrations that inhibit any public discussion of controversial cultural issues these days.
Still, I can’t understand why blocking puberty isn’t considered unethical medical experimentation. What testing was done as to efficacy, safety, and necessity? What about the children who cease being gender dysphoric after they mature, as sometimes happens? Are their needs taken into account? This is all being implemented so quickly, how can we know whether there will be long-term deleterious health and emotional impacts on children whose natural puberty is artificially inhibited?
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