I don't think it is because "they have completely resigned themselves to the idea that gender non-conforming kids are so damaged that there is no hope for them if they are simply allowed to live and be who they are." I think that gender-non-conforming kids are seen as the opportunity to pretend that transgenderism is natural, because look! kids have it! Therefore, if kids have it, then adults who have it are not freaks, and this is why the adults rewrite their own histories ("I've known since I was 4, etc."
"This is what trans activists mean when they talk about 'trans kids' and argue for childhood transition. They have completely resigned themselves to the idea that gender non-conforming kids are so damaged that there is no hope for them if they are simply allowed to live and be who they are."
That is a plausible explanation for the "trans kids" phenomenon, but there are others. It is arguable that trans activists and their strident, self-righteous "allies" do not think that deeply about the minors they would see mutilated and medicalised.
No, to trans activists it's largely a numbers game for the benefit of Team Trans. Also at work is a strong desire to legitimize gender identity ideology. As another commenter here has observed, the more "trans kids" and the younger they are, the easier it is to plant and maintain the fiction that "trans" is innate.
Boys in particular are an obvious choice for another reason, and that's to put further distance between the trans movement and that off-putting, middle-aged variety of MTF, the autogynephile. From a reputational perspective, the all-American, softball-loving, tree-climbing grade-school age tomboy holds an obvious appeal to a movement that most emphatically does not want the public to believe that troubled or neurodiverse feminine teen girls with rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) are the fastest-growing cohort of trans men.
Since trans activists aren't speaking candidly about their motives and how they view what they're doing, it's possible to draw different inferences from the same facts and reach different conclusions about the source of trans activists' support of "trans kids." The notion that activists see no future for gender nonconforming youth in cis society is not incompatible with the idea that they're playing a demographic game. There's no need to decide which motive is worse; both are deeply immoral because they permit activists to disregard the welfare of the individual child knowingly or recklessly in order to score political points.
So much is about money and status, from the medical system making careers, like John Money did, off torturing and sexually assaulting and ultimately killing children (the Reimer twins who he built his career on finally went public about his traumatizing molestation and "exams" before committing suicide), to the majority of the "GBTQA" and "progressives," etc. and "allies" who are so proud of themselves in building a terrifying cult where anyone daring to say no or even question is threatened with death.
It's the ultimate "conversion" therapy and erasure of Lesbians and gay men. Based on total illusion since no one is "transgender."
I don't think it is because "they have completely resigned themselves to the idea that gender non-conforming kids are so damaged that there is no hope for them if they are simply allowed to live and be who they are." I think that gender-non-conforming kids are seen as the opportunity to pretend that transgenderism is natural, because look! kids have it! Therefore, if kids have it, then adults who have it are not freaks, and this is why the adults rewrite their own histories ("I've known since I was 4, etc."
"This is what trans activists mean when they talk about 'trans kids' and argue for childhood transition. They have completely resigned themselves to the idea that gender non-conforming kids are so damaged that there is no hope for them if they are simply allowed to live and be who they are."
That is a plausible explanation for the "trans kids" phenomenon, but there are others. It is arguable that trans activists and their strident, self-righteous "allies" do not think that deeply about the minors they would see mutilated and medicalised.
No, to trans activists it's largely a numbers game for the benefit of Team Trans. Also at work is a strong desire to legitimize gender identity ideology. As another commenter here has observed, the more "trans kids" and the younger they are, the easier it is to plant and maintain the fiction that "trans" is innate.
Boys in particular are an obvious choice for another reason, and that's to put further distance between the trans movement and that off-putting, middle-aged variety of MTF, the autogynephile. From a reputational perspective, the all-American, softball-loving, tree-climbing grade-school age tomboy holds an obvious appeal to a movement that most emphatically does not want the public to believe that troubled or neurodiverse feminine teen girls with rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) are the fastest-growing cohort of trans men.
Since trans activists aren't speaking candidly about their motives and how they view what they're doing, it's possible to draw different inferences from the same facts and reach different conclusions about the source of trans activists' support of "trans kids." The notion that activists see no future for gender nonconforming youth in cis society is not incompatible with the idea that they're playing a demographic game. There's no need to decide which motive is worse; both are deeply immoral because they permit activists to disregard the welfare of the individual child knowingly or recklessly in order to score political points.
So much is about money and status, from the medical system making careers, like John Money did, off torturing and sexually assaulting and ultimately killing children (the Reimer twins who he built his career on finally went public about his traumatizing molestation and "exams" before committing suicide), to the majority of the "GBTQA" and "progressives," etc. and "allies" who are so proud of themselves in building a terrifying cult where anyone daring to say no or even question is threatened with death.
It's the ultimate "conversion" therapy and erasure of Lesbians and gay men. Based on total illusion since no one is "transgender."
Excellent, well-reasoned and well written article. Thank you Eva.
Yes, the cruelty is astonishing, really, masked as it is by the ear-shattering proclamations of compassion that accompany it.