Excellent article by Lily Maynard
"We're told that nobody is encouraging children to be transgender; that a generation of kids is suddenly coming to that realisation by itself.
There’s an excellent article on the 4thwavenow website about how there is no historical precedent for the transgender child’s explosion into the early 21st century.
Yet here zie is – and we need to have a careful look at the reasons behind that.
Teen Vogue tells us (February 2018) that actually, 3% of kids are trans. “Visibility is growing!” gushes Suzanne Weiss and we are supposed to greet that news with a resounding ‘Yay!’somehow forgetting for a few brief moments that we are also being told that nearly half of these trans-identified children and young people try to kill themselves.
Children who believe their non-compliance with socially prescribed gender roles means they should actually be the opposite sex- and their concerned parents- are not getting impartial advice or guidance. Often these children have co-existing mental health issues. All of the major UK trans organisations are run by trans-identified people or parents who have transitioned their children. Likewise many gender therapists have transitioned and actually believe themselves to be the opposite sex.
So families are counselled by those who wholeheartedly believe that you can be born in the wrong body and that transition is a solution. They believe there is a right and a wrong way to be male or female which isn’t defined by our bodies but by an inner and elusive ‘sense of gender’.
There is something seriously wrong here. People with eating disorders are not best placed to advise others about healthy eating; those who self-harm are not best placed to advise on coping strategies for anxiety.
Are we really supposed to believe that the continued unhappiness, depression & suicide ideation of young trans people is all because some strangers won’t validate their feelings? Or might it actually be because trans-identification is a psychiatric issue that’s being mistreated?"