In a few years the bar moved from saying that children were…

Among those of us with left-of-center political ideals, it’s only radical feminists who will now stand up and say that it’s wrong to sterilize children because they’re different, or unhappy. It’s only conservatives who will platform us to say it.

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Where are the other organizations that claim to represent lesbian and bisexual women, saying that these girls don’t need mastectomies? Where are the gay men’s groups standing up for the wholeness of these boys? Why are they abandoning their responsibilities?

Where are the groups for those on the autism spectrum, standing up to say that it’s completely typical for autistic young people to have social fit difficulties and be unhappy about this, as well as to obsessively perseverate on special interests?

Why are news outlets who’ve made their bones reporting on previous medical scandals ignoring the sterilization of these children? Whether they’re LGB, autistic, or caught up in social contagions because they self-diagnosed from a YouTube overdose in a vulnerable moment?

Schools generally do not allow asthmatic minors to carry and self-administer their own inhalers, and we’re all accepting this because of extreme concern about illicit drug use or overdose.

There have been serious harms because of such strict policies, from time to time.

Same kids can effectively diagnose themselves with dysphoria, then prescribe themselves puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and cosmetic removal of primary or secondary sex characteristics, under an affirmation-only model of gender identity “inclusion.”

If a teacher, counselor, or other professional objects to this “need” for sterilization—as self-diagnosed by an actual child—they’ll likely be fired. If a parent or guardian objects, they may be investigated for abuse or neglect, or lose custody, depending on the jurisdiction.

Feminists have been treated for years *as if* our real position was that men and boys ought to be harmed. Here comes the gender identity movement, and they turn the castration of boys into some kind of family entertainment celebration, but it’s fine!

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In a few years the bar moved from saying that children weren’t undergoing irreversible procedures, to arguing in The New Yorker that children should get to sterilize themselves for life without regard to the “arbitrary historical boundaries of

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