Treating psychological pain with sex change surgery doesn’t work
Perhaps the greatest harm inflicted by the promoters of transgenderism is on children who show signs of gender dysphoria. Parents are nowadays led to believe that the only way to prevent their gender-confused child from committing suicide is to allow them to begin to transition while they are young.
What parents aren’t being told is that 80 percent to 95 percent of children who express gender dysphoria will naturally grow out of it and come to identify with their bodily sex if natural development is allowed to proceed.
Those who do begin to transition at an early age often find themselves experiencing regret later in life.
As it turns out, my friend Walt is one of the many whose personal testimony is included in Anderson’s book. “Living as a woman,” Anderson notes, “brought him ‘no lasting peace.’” Instead, after transitioning, Walt’s gender confusion only seemed to worsen.
Speaking of the many people now in his network of “detransitioners,” Walt says, “Every single one of them had unwanted pain caused by sexual abuse, deep trauma, mental disorders, horrible loss, or terrible family circumstances in early life.” That is a far cry from what the transgender promoters say, asserting that transgenderism is an immutable, inborn trait.
In the end, Walt concludes, “Treating psychological pain with sex change surgery doesn’t work.”
That’s a message the whole world needs to hear. And it’s the message that Ryan Anderson skillfully, compassionately delivers.
