It’s becoming all about the blowback, I think.
City Journal has a report on gender-affirming care and, in a twist I hadn’t thought of, illegal conversion therapy, as in, Are they the same?
Fenway Community Health Center in Boston, the largest provider of transgender medicine in New England and one of the leading institutions of its kind in the United States, was named a defendant in a lawsuit filed last month. The plaintiff, a gay man who goes by the alias Shape Shifter, argues that by approving him for hormones and surgeries, Fenway Health subjected him to “gay conversion” practices, in violation of his civil rights. Carlan v. Fenway Community Health Center is the first lawsuit in the United States to argue that “gender-affirming care” can be a form of anti-gay discrimination.
And the sad thing is that if the transgender advocates had followed standard democratic practice by submitting the entire issue for public debate, extending over several years, suits like this could have been avoided, and appropriate administrative and psychological procedures could have been developed and implemented to manage the difficult question of transgender, juvenile members of society.
No guarantees, of course.
And along with the big ticket items, such respectable folk as Sir Richard Dawkins and J. K. Rowling could have been spared the mud-slinging by the gullible left and independents, too much in a hurry to “protect” the transgender that I think we’ll find needed more advice, less surgery, and more patience, outraged at the very thought of having an actual debate over the question.
Well, let the meat-grinder get to work, now.
