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Melissa's avatar

As the mom of an AFAB kid who identifies as trans, I cannot understate my fear that some of this (at least in our case) is congenital-- the result of endocrine disruption.

At age 3, my child was diagnosed with adrenal hyperplasia after we noticed persistent body odor.

The endocrinologist monitored my child until age 9 because that is the age at which reproductive development takes place, and in the words of the doctor, "what happens at this point is just part of biology."

So, as long as my child's skeleton didn't grow disproportionately or the child didn't develop any other medical abnormalities that would've resulted in psychological trauma, it meant annual trips to the specialist until being "released from care" at age nine.

It has always surprised me that nobody is mentioning the rampant presence of chemicals and plastics in everyone's bodies, and whether or not that correlates to to the rise in trans youth-- not as the *sole* cause, but surely part of the explanation?

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The best philosophical answer is found in Carl Trueman’s modern classic, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self. Briefly put, trans ideology is an inevitable outgrowth of modern thought. Read the book for the fuller, much more convincing argument. Dumbed down paraphrasing here:

“As Trueman illustrates, once you no longer get your meaning from external sources, once you create your own meaning, anything goes. Once you are fully on board with the cultural message that you can create your own identity - a message that most of us, including most doctors, have taken for granted for decades and decades - well, you become your own god, and if a god wants to be a girl, what’s to stop him from becoming a girl? You and I might think that’s nuts, that you’re anchored to the inescapable reality of your body, but it’s a totally logical step: if you’re not anchored to the reality of Creation, if the meaning and purpose of life is entirely decided by you and your feelings, if you kill God and become your own god, what is stopping you from making yourself into whatever image you happen to feel like?

The truth is that you are either designed for a purpose or you’re not. If you don’t believe you’ve been designed, what is stopping you from designing yourself? You can do it, the AAP will help, we have the technology, we can pump you full of hormones and perform surgeries and change your sex for you. Why shouldn’t we? Because of ‘biology’? Well, we can control biology; it’s not like there is anyone else but us in control of it, right?”

https://gaty.substack.com/p/the-logical-inevitability-of-your

2. You mention the difference between red and blue states… but both red and blue states have public schools! And trust me, as a Texan, the public schools in the most rural red states are still filled with hardcore woke, pro trans propaganda. So here’s my second argument for why kids are transing more: because it’s there. If schools talked to them about virtue and sacrifice and Saints all day, that’s what they’d aspire to become. But when the main attention is given to the genderbread man, that’s where the action end up. We tragically do the same thing with depression questionnaires in medicine and the classroom: the grooming is inherent in the (perpetual) questioning.

https://gaty.substack.com/p/how-we-make-children-miserable-and

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