{"id":463990,"date":"2022-06-16T23:15:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trans-surgery-for-children-is-not-a-right-to-be-fought-for\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T23:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T20:15:32","slug":"trans-surgery-for-children-is-not-a-right-to-be-fought-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trans-surgery-for-children-is-not-a-right-to-be-fought-for\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trans surgery for children is not a &#8216;right&#8217; to be fought for"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a418e0d52a6f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a418e0d52a6f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trans-surgery-for-children-is-not-a-right-to-be-fought-for\/#%E2%80%9CTrans_surgery_for_children_is_not_a_%E2%80%98right_to_be_fought_for%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Trans surgery for children is not a &#8216;right&#8217; to be fought for&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTrans_surgery_for_children_is_not_a_%E2%80%98right_to_be_fought_for%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Trans surgery for children is not a &#8216;right&#8217; to be fought for&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Douglas Murray\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/09\/Douglas-Murray.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When I was being brought up, \u201cPride\u201d was a sin. Now it has a whole month to itself. Perhaps the six other deadly sins should follow suit. Who\u2019s up for \u201cgluttony\u201d month, or \u201clust\u201d month? We already have a \u201csloth\u201d month. It\u2019s called August.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of many reasons why, despite being gay myself, I have always had a problem with Pride month. Decades ago there used to be gay rights marches. Then, once society had become more accepting, these turned into \u201cPride\u201d parades. Personally I couldn\u2019t understand the switch. It\u2019s not like people \u201cchoose\u201d to be gay. But if you shouldn\u2019t feel shame over a thing then there\u2019s no reason why you should feel pride over it either. It just is. Like having brown hair, or blue eyes. Why feel \u201cpride\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Then there was the mission creep. Pride went from a march to a week and then a month. We have Armed Forces Day in America. Why should being gay have a month while the military only has a day?<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the corporate cynicism of the thing. When gay rights were difficult to argue for, most major companies were nowhere to be seen. Some would fire employees if they found out they were gay. That was when corporations, government departments and more could have been some help. But no \u2014 they were silent while the heavy lifting was needed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/trans-children-rights-02.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"There are some people (a very tiny number) who feel that they have been born in the wrong body. We still have no idea why. \" class=\"wp-image-22690131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/trans-children-rights-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/trans-children-rights-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/trans-children-rights-02.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>There are some people (a very tiny number) who feel that they have been born in the wrong body. We still have no idea why. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/iStockphoto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet now that the battle is won you can\u2019t walk anywhere in New York without the big banks telling you how wonderfully proud they are. Every corporate billboard shouts \u201cmagical rainbow people.\u201d I\u2019ve even seen Pride cakes. As though anyone wants to eat a cake based on sex preferences.<\/p>\n<p>Worst, however, is the dark turn that \u201cPride\u201d and the whole \u201cLGBTQIA+\u201d (insert initials at will) movement has taken. And that is at the corner of trans.<\/p>\n<p>As I wrote in my 2019 book \u201cThe Madness of Crowds,\u201d it isn\u2019t at all clear that being gay and being trans have anything in common. Being gay means that you are attracted to members of the same sex as you. Being trans means . . . Well we\u00b4re still actually not certain what it means.<\/p>\n<p>A sane society would feel humble about that fact. There are some people (a very tiny number) who feel that they have been born in the wrong body. We still have no idea why. If trans means anything, then it <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lies to those people. But in the last decade there has been mission creep. The move to accept trans has now moved into an acceptance that there are a hundred different genders (two-spirit, non-binary etc.) and that biological sex does not exist. If the gay rights movement had started by saying \u201cWe\u2019re here, we\u2019re queer, and so men and women don\u2019t exist\u201d I doubt it would have gone very far.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>But in no time the trans movement has come very far indeed. So far in fact that our whole society is being force-fed ideas that haven\u2019t even been thought over. Every week I hear from parents whose children are being taught utterly deranging nonsense. <\/p>\n<p>For instance there is the idea that if a child or teenager feels in any way strange about their body they might be trans. Well excuse me, but that would make 100% of teenagers trans. When you\u2019re growing up everybody feels funny about their body. Growing up can be scary. Every child at some point will feel like they don\u2019t fit in. Is that because they are \u201dtrans\u201d? Or just because they are just kids? In the vast majority of cases it will be the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly the number of people who haven\u2019t thought about this includes the US President. On Wednesday Biden issued an executive order which sought to address \u201cconversion therapy.\u201d Families of LGBTQ kids should \u201clet them be themselves\u201d said the President. As though that is obvious, and that children always and everywhere knows what their true \u201cself\u201d is.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/trans-children-rights-04.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\u201cTrans conversion therapy\u201d is now being defined as any attempt to even question a child who says they might be trans.\" class=\"wp-image-22690165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/trans-children-rights-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/trans-children-rights-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/trans-children-rights-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cTrans conversion therapy\u201d is now being defined as any attempt to even question a child who says they might be trans.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Corbis via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In fact this is an ideological car crash. Gay conversion therapy is outlawed not just because it is cruel but because it does not work. There is no serious evidence to suggest that you can make someone stop being same-sex attracted. But Biden and co have now added \u201ctrans conversion therapy\u201d into the same category. And here is a disaster for this nation\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p>Because \u201ctrans conversion therapy\u201d is now being defined as any attempt to even question a child who says they might be trans. I have spoken with New York parents who have been told off by their children\u2019s schools for daring to question their child.<\/p>\n<p>But what the hell do children know? Children are not born wise or with complete self-knowledge. They are \u2014 by nature \u2014 highly suggestible. If a child lives in a society that tells them they might be trans then some will mistakenly believe it. Most will turn out to be perfectly straight or gay. And some of the latter might see being trans as an easier \u2014 and more acceptable \u2014 solution. I know this from interviewing such people and hearing about the terrible consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Because if you are \u201ctrans\u201d then a set of other things must follow. You will be told you should take hormones or puberty blockers. You will be told these are reversible though they are not. If you are a girl you will be encouraged to have \u201ctop-surgery,\u201d a k a a mastectomy. Does nobody apart from parents see the madness of this? Does nobody but the public see how mad it is that we now live in a society in which if a girl says they are a boy we are all meant to celebrate them. Whereas if a girl says they are a boy and we say \u201care you sure about that?\u201d we are engaging in \u201cconversion therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gay people often struggle to sort out their sexuality in their teens. The worst that can happen is a few broken hearts. But allowing surgery or hormones on someone who is still sorting on their gender leaves broken bodies.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the problem with pride. Like all sins, it thrives in ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a reckoning one day for all the adults who pushed such mass delusion on this nation\u2019s children.<\/p>\n<p>After all, what is that comes before a fall again? Oh yes. Pride.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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