How psychiatry and activism created the concept of ‘transgender children’

In April 2007, millions of Americans passed on ABC 20/20 While Barbara Walters presented the world to psychiatry Most devastating creation: “The transgender child”. In a segment entitled “My secret self“Walters profiled three children – including a young jazz Jennings – being raised like the opposite sex, explaining that they had been diagnosed with an” gender identity disorder “.

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The episode marks the moment when the Western world has lost its grip on reality. A brand new type of human being had been mentioned in existence by the collision of psychiatry, endocrinology and political activism. However, while the concept has challenged everything about the development of childhood and identity training, great expanses of society – almost overnight – believing the incredible: that a child could be born in the wrong body.

To understand how such a belief was materialized, we have to return to an obscure corner of psychiatry in the 1960s, where a group of marginal doctors studied what motivated men who thought they were women to seek hormones and surgeries. These researchers turned their attention To female boys, hoping to identify future transsexuals and, in doing so, they pathologized the non-compliance of gender in childhood.

A Canadian activist holds a poster as hundreds of activists, allies and members of LGBTQ2 + legislation of the transgender community of the transgender community affecting young transgender and non -binary on February 03, 2024, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Artur Widak / Nurphoto via Getty Images)

In the decades that followed, it has become clear that what these pioneers found above all were “transsexual children”, but but future homosexuals. However, when it was understood, it was too late. The seed had been planted – and the concept of “the trans child” was about to take up his own life.

A central moment arrived in 1980, when “childhood gender identity disorder” was included in the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM-III). After the official diagnosis, the medical “solution” came: the abolition of puberty, developed in the Netherlands during the 1990s.

While psychiatry has designed the idea, puberty blockers gave life to the transgender child. Before this intervention, it was impossible to raise a boy as a girl, or vice versa, with puberty looming on the horizon. But when the Dutch has made optional puberty, they gave the adults deeply patiently patients to break children not in accordance with the kind of the reality of their sexual bodies.

The activist of the Prisha Mosley detransitioners holding a sign outside the Supreme Court of the United States, because the oral arguments for us against Skrmetti are underway, on December 4, 2024. (Independent women)

At the same time, a critical change also took place in the field of trans activism. In the 1990s, Trans activists decided to redefine transgender identities as innate and healthy, rather than rail in a mental disorder or a paraphilic desire. This was not based on new science; it was Strategic rebranding. The old labels, although precise, did not suit the political objectives of the emerging movement.

The concept of the transgender child, freshly struck by medicine, fits perfectly into this new story. If being trans is innate, transgender children must exist. And if transgender children exist, then trans identities must be natural – not pathological or deviant. It was a self -adjusting – circular and convincing loop, but based on ideology, not evidence.

During the decades that followed, the “trans children” were put on the foreground of what was designed as a fight for civil rights. This devastating convergence of medical, political and cultural forces has enabled countless children – rather than having the freedom to grow, mature and explore different identities – was locked in a life of medicalization, embodying an identity which was imposed on them before they were old enough to understand what was at stake.

Detransions and activist Chloe Cole outside the Supreme Court building during the oral arguments in the Skrmetti case against US on December 4, 2024. (Fox News Digital)

Each story of a “trans child” begins with Tired stereotypes—The boys who love Barbies And Princess dressesOr tomboy with short hair and a Dresses aversion. Which separates a child not in accordance with the sex of that diagnosed with genre dysphoria– now considered a “trans child” – is not biology, but belief. More specifically, the Child’s belief that they are the opposite sex. In our world upside down, the child leads and adults follow.

However, only a society under the influence of mass psychosis could treat children as wise oracles capable of dividing an authentic soul of gender while being young enough to believe in Santa Claus and the fairy.

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Tragic reality is: Trans children do not exist. What exists are children not in accordance with the genre who try to give themselves meaning in a world that has Abandoned reason in favor of ideology. These children – the majority of whom would grow up gay Or lesbian– are lied during a crucial stage in identity development, and the consequences will haunt them a lifetime.

Once the forces that have collided to create the transgender child – psychiatric labeling, medical experimentation and activist messaging – are included, the dark irony of the preferred slogan of trans activism, Protect trans childrenbecomes undoubtedly.

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In truth, children need protection against people who believe there is one thing like a trans child. THE Walking crowds In the streets, waving pink, blue and white flags in zealous solidarity can consider themselves just heroes, but they do not fight to protect children. Instead, these are modern pipe pipes, attracting confused and vulnerable children far from safety and on the dangerous path first paved by psychiatry – one of false promises and irreversible damage.