Quoted below, extracts from a conversation that in many circles would result in much hissing and flailing of limbs, but which, it seems to me, very much ought to be had:
It’s captured everything. This ideology – this crazy, insane ideology that has no grounding in reality – has captured… every institution. It’s in schools, it’s in mainstream media, it’s everywhere… and it’s utterly absurd… Denying the existence of the mental illness doesn’t help those who suffer from the mental illness. All it does is prevent them from getting the necessary care.
It’s not a sign of good mental health for a man to want his penis inverted and turned into an open wound that he has to dilate for the rest of his life. That’s not evidence of a sound mind…
The reason that we’re forbidden – the reason they went on this de-psychopathologising campaign – which was WPATH, the organisation I wrote the report about – the reason that they did that is they wanted to destigmatise transgender identities. I understand that… But the answer is not to deny the existence of the mental illness… Let’s say there’s a stigma attached to being schizophrenic. The answer is not to deny the existence of schizophrenia. That would not help schizophrenic people at all. And the same thing goes with gender-related issues…
In any other branch of medicine, doctors would ask why. If you saw a sudden, 5000% increase in young people with bipolar disorder, the mental health world would investigate immediately… If you saw a 5,000% increase in girls suffering from anorexia, immediately we would want to know – what was that trigger, what is causing this? And yet, with gender, the 5,000% increase happens and nobody says a thing. Everybody’s pretending that it’s perfectly normal and healthy. Why? Because… it’s gender. You’re not allowed to question anything. You can only celebrate.
It’s almost as if we’re supposed to celebrate a 5,000% increase in teenage girls showing up at gender clinics and wanting their breasts cut off.
From the following video, in which Andrew Gold talks with the formidable Mia Hughes, author of The WPATH Files, about pseudoscience, malpractice, and experiments on children.
It’s a forty-five-minute watch, but there’s plenty to chew on. Much that could be quoted. I should point out that the later sections of the interview, which explore surgical affirmations, or as one surgeon puts it, “creating body types that do not exist in nature,” does get a little vivid, and indeed surreal.
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