No, Toddlers Aren’t Trans

The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has dropped their minimum age requirement for referral to “gender incongruence” clinics. They were planning on a minimum age of seven, but when they put that proposal out for “consultation” (what we call “comment”), well….

Cue screaming from the trans activists. Lots of screaming, apparently; so much that the NHS caved.

My first response when I saw this was “No, HELL NO!” I still think that’s the appropriate response to ANY form of biological therapy for gender dysphoria or confusion or incongruence or whatever it’s called this week before the age of 18, for Reasons. Lots of Reasons, far too many to discuss in this OpEd. There are a few linked at the bottom of this article about Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, if you’re interested.

Once I started looking deeper into what the NHS was doing, it seems like their new policy might not be quite as horrible as the headlines say.

Somebody at the NHS is brilliantly sneaky, and I like it.

The new proposals strictly follow the Cass Review, which slammed the brakes on a lot of the UK’s trans insanity. Dr. Cass pointed out that there’s no good evidence that aggressive chemical and surgical treatment of childhood and adolescent gender confusion actually improves outcomes. There’s a fair bit of evidence—with more popping up regularly—that it actually does more harm than good.

Dr. Cass recommended only using puberty blockers in tightly-controlled clinical trials, and more psychosocial interventions, mainly psychotherapy, for these kids and their families.

On this side of the pond, HHS just released a report that says much the same thing. No good evidence, and all you gender treaters just need to calm the frak down.

What the NHS is actually doing is expanding the number of clinics dealing with this diagnosis. They’re requiring two appointments—not just a 30 minute visit, here’s your script for blockers, see the secretary on your way out for a surgery referral—before going to the gender clinic.

Best of all, they’re bringing the families (read: mothers) in for “holistic” assessment and treatment.

That’s the sneaky part—IF they’re doing it right.

We know that at least half of gender dysphoric boys have a Borderline Personality Disorder mother. We also know, from anecdotal reports, that if you do a therapeutic mother-ectomy, the gender dysphoria quickly resolves—as you’d expect.

Then there’s Munchausen’s by Proxy, which is devilishly difficult to diagnose—unless it presents as a gender dysphoric toddler.

There are other diagnostic codes that can apply in these situations, but most of them boil down to one thing: a mother acting out her own intrapsychic issues through the child.

That’s a nice way of saying mom’s bat guano crazy.

No, it’s not always the mother. But, it usually is. Again, Reasons, men and women are different, regardless of what the current ideology would have you believe.

Of course the trans activists don’t like any of this. I don’t care, and neither should you.

Sorry, all you TQRSWTFever+@¥ activists, toddlers aren’t trans. Period. Full stop.

Infantile sexuality is NOT adult sexuality. Polymorphous perversity is A Thing, and by my observations, a version of it is a not-uncommon part of the generalized insanity that is “puberty.”

Toddlers can’t be trans because, quite frankly, they haven’t developed enough to have a clue about what sex, gender or orientation is. It’s like expecting a caterpillar to fly—later, yes; now, not a chance.

How do I know this? Simple. It’s basic childhood growth and development—or at least, it used to be, before wokeness and its corollaries ate the brains of far too many child therapists.

We know from the Tavistock Clinic whistleblowers, and others, that kids with gender confusion were being “encouraged” by their therapists to embrace their “trans identity.” It’s effectively become the standard of care, as sad as that is to say.

My hope is that this kind of therapeutic “encouragement” will be kept to a minimum in the NHS’ “holistic” clinics. Supportive, non-agenda-driven therapy, to help these kids figure themselves out, is the way to go. If, after five years, and turning 18, they still feel that way? Well, there’s still hormones and surgery as an option.

Meanwhile, the root issue of at least half of these cases can be addressed: the mothers. And this approach won’t do irreversible harm to those kids for whom this is a socially-contagious condition.

All in all, this may actually be a win for sanity and proper, effective treatment of gender dysphoria in most cases. Because, as every good child therapist knows, if momma’s psycho, ain’t nobody happy.

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