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Parents like this have "munchausen gender dysphoria by proxy". This mentally-ill mother is doing this to get comments from others about her Woke status.

I actually know a mom like that, but the deluded kid is a male. I hope they have not chopped his dick off.

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My youngest son was born with an abdominal malformation and had surgery to fix it when he was 9 months old. The surgeon called us during the operation to ask if we’d like her to go ahead and take out his appendix, as she was working right next to it anyway. We talked about it and agreed, but I STILL felt a little weird about okaying the removal of a superfluous but healthy small organ.

I can’t imagine this.

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Transhausen By Proxy.

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Jul 16, 2022Liked by Colin Wright

These are such compelling and heartbreaking stories. As I read them, I can’t imagine ever even considering having one of my children’s body parts literally chopped off. How this is even remotely something even one parent has viewed as “helping” their child is so utterly mind boggling. The fact that it’s praised and championed by these evil, sadistic predators in these groups is just incomprehensible. These poor children.

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Jul 16, 2022Liked by Colin Wright

Reading this I’m both saddened and horrified. The huge push toward a double mastectomy on this poor disturbed child is maddening. History will not be kind to these child mutilators.

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Jul 15, 2022·edited Jul 16, 2022Liked by Colin Wright

This breaks my heart. I have a 15 year old, soon to be 16, granddaughter. I'm terrified for her in this culture. Mothers are supposed to be the final barrier to harm by others. Instead these misguided women are throwing their children under the bus. These pharmaceutical companies, and surgeons are despicable .

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Jul 15, 2022Liked by Colin Wright

"Cutting" seems to be a fad among gloomy teens. "Cutting" followed by "coming out" seem to me rather indicative of someone who is simply susceptible to fads.

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Jul 16, 2022Liked by Colin Wright

I started reading this but I just couldn't. May God have mercy on us all.

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This illustrates perfectly the all-or-nothing, with-us-or-against-use nature of this movement. Trans people, and those working in transgender health, should especially care about whether young people are getting the mental and emotional support they need, and not rushing into life-changing decisions they may regret.

If one isn’t seen to be 100% affirming, including medical transition of minors, then one is seen to be a transphobe, a bigot, an uncaring person. When in fact the opposite is true - we care deeply about the damage being inflicted on thousands of young people, and the looming medical scandal.

Four years ago I really didn’t see what all the fuss was about; I was supportive of broadening of trans rights including trans women being consider “honorary women” and allowed into many women’s spaces (though never sports; I always understood the difference between sex and gender). But I was not educated on what was actually happening: ‘self declared’ men who’ve never taken hormones or had surgery being let into women’s rape crisis centres, prisons, hospital wards and sports, minors having breasts removed, rising numbers of detransitioners with deep regret. Neither did I full realise what the movement’s claims actually were: that we should replace sex with an undefinable/unproven thing called ‘gender’, that men can actually become women and women men, that women don’t have the right to self-define or self-organise). So I’ve come to a new understanding of the issues, which is much deeper, much better informed, and much more reality-based.

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For me, the most horrific part about having a child who identifies as trans is having to witness it. Regardless of whether this is something my teen believes he needs, for me, it's like someone actually torturing my child and being forced to watch, and at this point, having put a stop to blockers, it's just the psychological damage I'm dealing with. The thought of a surgeon operating on my child and removing healthy body parts makes me physically ill. This woman's maternal instinct has been short-circuited by social pressures and activist clinicians. If I wasn't so thoroughly disgusted, I would have pity on her, but I reserve that for her child who is sending a very clear message that this is a horrific mistake. If she goes through with this and has regret, which seems inevitable, her mother will have to live with the unbearable shame and self-loathing, which is almost punishment enough.

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I feel for this psychotherapist who is caught in the legal insanity these lunatics and their ideological handlers have created. For the psychotherapists that might be reading, we are forming a new professional association that seeks to re-orient our profession to common sense. We mean that in the best clinical sense of that word. We are including divisions on optimal mental health, psychotherapy effectiveness, and traditional understandings for health and happiness. www.nationalpsychotherapyassociation.org

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Signs of sexual abuse: • Anxiety about specific situations that didn’t previously prompt anxiety

• Avoiding specific people or places

• Persistent sadness or depression

• Low self-esteem

• Disturbed sleep or nightmares

• Self-harming behavior

• Suicidal thoughts

Maybe mom should explore other possibilities related to the child’s issues. There’s obvious trauma there, and it’s unlikely that lopping off the child’s breasts will address the real issue. This is child abuse, pure and simple. I do feel bad for the parents who have been manipulated into thinking they’re somehow doing the right thing. There’s no win here. At what point does child services step in and say “Stop the madness!”? They’re all culpable and are destroying an entire generation of our kids.

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This story is absolutely insane. The moment that daughter got scared of the operation, the mother should have breathed a sigh of relief...

This happened to a fellow I know, daughter with autism, but 10 days before the op she desisted. The girl is still recovering from her brush with transgendersism, and the community that patted her on the back now hates her, but she's been saved.

My daughter... not sure what's happening, it's a struggle. BUT when she socially transitioned, we went to the school, and they suggested we go to the local children's medical services, where the doc was ready to put her on T... Even my daughter backed down, it was too fast. That doc is under investigation (for something I will find out this week) . But she continued nonetheless. I went down to the local shelter, asked 100 questions. I was told about three times that I would prefer my daughter's suicide, I wrote up the interview and am now persona non grata there. But I gave it all to my daughter and it shook her. Because I told her, I can only be honest. She's 18 now, and all I can do is hope that I made her think. She has the autist's mind, a high IQ, and she's very articulate.

So I continue trying to support other parents or friends of tras I know. None of them are euphoric.

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This blog is peddling a lot of fear.

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Flabbergasted at this story but grateful that this publication is shining some light on how this ideology is ruining kids and society at large.

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"One thing to note about gender-affirming care is how quickly an entire history of mental health problems is immediately explained away and ignored the moment any child “comes out” as transgender. Instead of viewing the sudden emergence of a trans identity as yet another manifestation of underlying mental issues, “gender dysphoria” is immediately taken to be the root cause underlying all of it, with transition viewed as a panacea."

Clearly it'd be a mistake to assume causality in either direction -- to assume that gender dysphoria is a result of other issues like ADHD/anxiety (which aren't generally known to cause confusion about gender), or to assume that the other issues are a result of gender dysphoria (since those issues usually occur on their own).

So, how should everyone involved determine which (if either) is the root cause?

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