It looks like it is now safe to publicly say these critically important things at the WP, 18 months after Abigail Shrier sounded the alarm but was completely and intentionally ignored by WP/NYT/NPR. Here is an excerpt from a brand new article by Laura Edwards-Leeper and Erica Anderson: “The mental health establishment is failing trans kids Gender-exploratory therapy is a key step. Why aren’t therapists providing it?”:
“The number of adolescents requesting medical care is skyrocketing: Now 1.8 percent of people under 18 identify as transgender, double the figure from five years earlier, according to the Trevor Project. A flood of referrals to mental health providers and gender medical clinics, combined with a political climate that sees the treatment of each individual patient as a litmus test of social tolerance, is spurring many providers into sloppy, dangerous care. Often from a place of genuine concern, they are hastily dispensing medicine or recommending medical doctors prescribe it — without following the strict guidelines that govern this treatment. . . .
When working in gender clinics, we’ve also both received letters from therapists who had “assessed” patients they were referring to us. An astonishing number of these were nothing but a paragraph that stated the youth identified as trans, had dysphoria and wanted hormones, so that course was recommended. There are nearly 200,000 members of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association. Add to that the clinical social workers, marriage counselors and family therapists. The overwhelming majority of those well-intentioned professionals receive limited or no training in the assessment of gender-diverse youth. (We receive requests frequently from people eager for more comprehensive, nuanced trainings, which we both deliver.) In simple terms, the demand for competent care has outstripped the supply of competent providers.”
How many teenagers have been permanently damaged as a result of getting ideology instead of meaningful counseling? How many have been permanently disfigured or made sterile as a result of surgery and hormone treatment in those 18 months since Abigail Shrier tried to warn us but was shut down in a concerted effort by left-leaning media, social media platforms and even a prominent attorney for the ACLU?
Perhaps the real lessons of Virginia are coming home. Introspection is difficult and painful. It takes a long time to achieve results. You can have instant gratification if you give up the hard work and just identify yourself as L/
R or R/D. Then you start encountering real-world problems, such as finding yourself in a deflating bubble, with nobody interested in joining you. Difficult to make a living that way. Especially once people recognize that you don’t actually create any value.
If WP/NYT/NPR want to stay relevant, they’re going to have to recognize that they’ll be as profitable as a penny saver in rural Montana unless they stop the eternal virtue signaling and pouring contempt on the assembled maggotry.