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 From Legal Insurrection:

The NY Times actually ran an article regarding child mutilation, which is called ‘transitioning’ by liberals.  Finally detransitioners are being heard.  Their stories tell the tales of how, when they were having the general angst that is adolescence, they had the misfortune to fall in with ‘counselors’ that immediately sent them to be filled with drugs and, in some cases, physically mutilated.  Their parents either went along because of the ‘transitioned child or dead child’ trope or because they were forced to by the state.

From the Times article:

Many who think there needs to be a more cautious approach — including well-meaning liberal parents, doctors and people who have undergone gender transition and subsequently regretted their procedures — have been attacked as anti-trans and intimidated into silencing their concerns.

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Parents told me it was a struggle to balance the desire to compassionately support a child with gender dysphoria while seeking the best psychological and medical care. Many believed their kids were gay or dealing with an array of complicated issues. But all said they felt compelled by gender clinicians, doctors, schools and social pressure to accede to their child’s declared gender identity even if they had serious doubts. They feared it would tear apart their family if they didn’t unquestioningly support social transition and medical treatment. All asked to speak anonymously, so desperate were they to maintain or repair any relationship with their children, some of whom were currently estranged. 

The article also touches on something that I found, and perhaps if the LGB (no additions to the alphabet) community looked at it closer, that they would find interesting as well–that gender transition is inherently anti-gay, just as it is anti-woman. 

Gay men and women often told me they fear that same-sex-attracted kids, especially effeminate boys and tomboy girls who are gender nonconforming, will be transitioned during a normal phase of childhood and before sexual maturation — and that gender ideology can mask and even abet homophobia.

As one detransitioned man, now in a gay relationship, put it, “I was a gay man pumped up to look like a woman and dated a lesbian who was pumped up to look like a man. If that’s not conversion therapy, I don’t know what is.”

“I transitioned because I didn’t want to be gay,” Kasey Emerick, a 23-year-old woman and detransitioner from Pennsylvania, told me. Raised in a conservative Christian church, she said, “I believed homosexuality was a sin.”

One would hope that the gay community would take a harder look and maybe start changing their perspective.