Debra J. Saunders: Dead Names and Gender Dysphoria

Amy says her daughter was 15 —and just broken up with her boyfriend — when her daughter told her, “I’m tran, and I need a new name.” Amy didn’t believe it was real. “This was coming from somewhere else. It wasn’t organic,” Amy was the subject of a new documentary.

Helen realized that Jonas’s son Helen, who was then 4 years old, was a boy when he told her he was a little girl. “So one day, he’s a girl, the next he’s a fish.” Helen and her husband split because Helen’s ex-wife saw Jonas in Rosa.

Sean became a female after Bill’s son Sean graduated college. Sean was diagnosed early with cancer and lost one leg to it. Sean died from the disease shortly after his funeral. Sean’s college friends pressured Bill to call their late son. “Ellie.”

Sean, you will see, was an a “dead name,” The transitioned reserve for their birth names.

“Dead Name” It is also the title to a 50-minute documentary on how gender transitioning and the rise in popularity has affected three families.

According to Reuters, there have been nearly three times as many new gender dysphoria diagnoses for children aged 6-17 between 2017 and 2021.

There is no scientific explanation for the explosion.

For 50 minutes, Amy, Bill, Helen and other parents spoke of their battles with school and health officials who felt they knew their children — and what’s best for their kids — better than they did.

“The U.K. has experienced a 4,400% increase in girls being referred for transitioning treatment. Autistic girls are hugely over-represented in their numbers,” “Harry Potter” J.K. Rowling was the author of this article. It was published on her website in 2020.

Children who suffer from autism or anxiety now have access to an explanation that makes them popular — they’re transgender.

These children are now unwitting participants to a dangerous medical experiment.

Helen squirms at the idea that she was supposed be happy about it. “Celebrate what?” She asked. “That my son is going to put on hormones and his penis will never grow and he’ll never have a normal sex life and he’ll be on drugs for the rest of his life?”

The New York Times ordered an analysis last year on the side effects of puberty-blockers. It came up with the following: “When adolescents are using blockers, bone density growth flatlines, on average.”

Regret haunts many who had surgery — such as breast removal — only to realize that the procedure was a mistake. Mutilation, actually.

Rowling was moved to write about controversial issues out of concern. “the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition,” Also, the increase in de-transitioners “because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility.”

Rowling was called a transphobe for her reasonable approach and was flamed on social media. Her books were also burned.

I have known transgender adults who are facing a tough road ahead. I don’t want to make them’s lives any more difficult than they are.

I don’t believe that convincing thousands of American kids that they have anxiety or depression is the solution. “assigned gender” at birth — if that is not the case.

Debra J. Sunders is a Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership. Get in touch with her at [email protected]

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