On Twitter/”X,” the advocacy organization “Restore Childhood” documents the horrific case study of a little boy pushed into “gender affirming care” by his woke-lunatic mother, facilitated by unethical medical professionals. Below is the tweet series. You can watch the disturbing videos here.
This is a case study of how social fads, ideological propaganda, group think, peer pressure and gullible minds can harm children. There have been many other examples over the years and across cultures, notably in public education, though none of those resulted in physically injuring children that I can think of at the moment. There probably were some I’m forgetting. A far less destructive version of this current madness was the once common practice of forcing left-handed children to write with their right hands. Castrating boys so they could continue to sing in the soprano range was pretty much dead by the 19th Century and never was practiced here, so I’m not counting that abomination.
I wonder how many victims like Avery will have their lives altered for the worse before the “gender affirming care” fad fades.
And yes, I believe this issue is on the ballot next month.
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This is not a case study; it is not even close to one. It is a series of clips from an organization promoting a particular point of view, clips which easily can walk alongside confirmation bias, hand-in-hand. Some true case studies free of bias would be welcome.
Despite that, I agree that we should allow kids to be kids, nurture them, and support them in the choices they are knowledgeable and mature enough to make, and dissuade or prevent those for which they are not.
The story of Avery here, despite the many omissions and unknowns, highlights the inherent difficulty of supporting parental rights in raising their kids vs. government intervention.
As an aside, I am one of those lefties forced to write right-handed. It made sense at the time. School windows were on the left (still are in traditional classrooms, so far as I know), so the light favors right-handed. Likewise, back in the day (yes, I’m that old), lefties, as they wrote, would either drag their left hand across the fresh wet ink from the inkwell on the desk or contort their left hand and wrist awkwardly to avoid smearing as they wrote. Another major factor in my case, that damned Latin prevalent in Catholic schools. From ‘dexter’ (right), we get dexterous, while left is ‘sinister’ — good vs evil; end of discussion. So far as I know, including self-analysis, this forcible denial of nature did not cause any dain bramage.
“dain bramage”
Bravo!
The left has found a way to normalize a variant of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. They won’t stop there; they never do.