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The End Of The Transgender Craze Is Near

The backlash against “gender-affirming care” and trans-identified males in women’s sports and prisons is accelerating

To support "gender-affirming care” is to be on the right side of history, millions believe. To be pro-transition is basically the same as being pro-gay, they believe. Whether one is attracted to people of the same sex or believes oneself to be of the opposite sex, it’s just how people are born. Trans people, including children and vulnerable adults, deserve medical care so they can assume their correct gender and deserve to compete in the sports competitions of their preferred sex.

But it’s quickly becoming apparent that “gender medicine” is on the wrong side of history.

Last week, millions of people read stories at X, the Washington Post, the Economist, the Telegraph, and even the Guardian about internal files of the leading transgender health organization, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), showing widespread medical mistreatment of children, adolescents, and vulnerable adults.

And yesterday, the UK government’s National Health Service England (NHSE) announced that it was halting the prescription of puberty blockers in government hospitals.

Of course, most Americans haven’t heard of the WPATH Files or the UK government’s decision. And the UK government will still allow puberty blockers in private clinics, and some people in Europe had already anticipated this decision.

But the UK’s decision was far stronger than had been expected. “It’s bombastic for sure,” Dr. Erica Anderson, a former President of WPATH,” told Public. “Everyone was expecting severe limits. Total ban? No.”

About 5,000 children and adolescents are on the waiting list to get into a UK gender clinic. Now, it’s likely that just a handful will receive puberty blockers.

And puberty blockers aren’t the obvious first thing one would expect the UK government to ban. Far more controversial are genital surgeries on minors, which are irreversible, resulting in sterilization, and likely also cause a significant, if not total, loss of sexual function or hormones.

And because over 90% of children put on puberty blockers continue with “transition,” a ban on puberty blockers will strictly limit hormones and surgery for youth. Some adults will continue to use radical medical interventions, but the effective ban on them for young people is likely to reduce the number from tens of thousands to a few hundred.

As such, the decision by the UK government to issue far more sweeping restrictions suggests the existence of a stronger cross-party consensus within the UK government than the glitzy pro-transition PR of recent years had suggested. There is a sense in which, after years of irresponsible healthcare teenagers having a wild party, drugging kids, and experimenting on their bodies, the adults have come home and started to impose order.

Before the backlash against gender medicine was the backlash against putting transwomen/natal males in women’s prisons. Around the world, men who are caught committing crimes, including violent and sexual ones, are using “gender self-identification” to claim that they are actually women and demand to be put in women’s prisons. Many Americans are unaware that this is even occurring, much less that it brought down the Scottish government in mid-February of last year, just two weeks after its Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said she had nothing to apologize for.

In terms of trans policies that cause real-world harm, women’s sports are also still an issue. Yet here, too, the backlash against natal males in female sports is gaining momentum. Former college swimming champion Riley Gaines has a new book out and is on the warpath. On Joe Rogan, Gaines told the story of how, despite having tied transwoman/natal male swimmer, Lia Thomas, the NCAA decided, on the stop, to give the one trophy to Thomas.

And the leader of the British Labour Party, Keir Starmer, said on Monday that “common sense has to prevail in terms of safety and integrity of sport” and that biological males should thus not be allowed to participate in women’s sports. Starmer pointed to the fact that some elite sports leagues, including athletics, swimming, and cycling, have already banned transwomen/natal men from competing in women’s leagues.

As such, it’s only a matter of time for liberal-minded Americans and Democrats to hear about the changes in Europe and start to impose reforms. That may happen as early as this year if Republicans turn gender medicine and boys and men in girls and women's sports into political issues. But even if it doesn’t happen this year, it will happen soon. Every day brings more writing on the wall....